Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:19:46 +0100 From: Steve Roome <steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1 install won't boot (but 4.0 will!) Message-ID: <20000920141946.P8111@moose.bri.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200009200411.PAA00278@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:11:10PM %2B1100 References: <200009200411.PAA00278@lightning.itga.com.au>
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:11:10PM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote:
> > I've gone from mkisofs to mkhybrid for making my ISO images. Hmmm!
>
> Relax! There seems to be no problem with the CD as the CD boots fine, and
> installs fine. It's just that the resulting system will not boot from the
> hard disk.
>
> Current indications is a problem with the new 1024-byte boot0 (even after the
> patch mentioned in ERRATA.TXT), as installing the old 512-byte boot0 from a 4.0
> CD allows the system to boot. I'm talking with John Baldwin about tracking it
> down....
This machine I'm on is a Vectra XU (dual ppro 200, which I think is
fairly similar), I can check an old XA out of my cupboard of knackered
bits if you have really are having no luck.
For me I had problems getting the BIOS on the XU to boot from the default
SCSI disk, for some reason it never liked it much, I just put a floppy in
and when I get the boot: prompt from that chose da0 as the boot device.
I actually have two of these machines on my desk. (to replace the XA which
was getting on a bit!) and one boots okay and the other doesn't...
Here's an XU that does boot okay :
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=2033 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=2033 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 32, size 4163552 (2032 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
Here's one that doesn't :
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=7415 heads=109 sectors/track=11 (1199 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=7415 heads=109 sectors/track=11 (1199 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 11, size 8890574 (4341 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 11/ head 108
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
Still, beats me, but as I said, if you have no luck with other things I'll
try to make time to test an XA for you. [no-one round here's going to be
installing Windows 2000 on it in a hurry =) ]
Good luck,
Steve
N.B. This is a personal comment, not as a representative of HP. These
are my views/opinions etc. not the opinions or standard responses of
Hewlett Packard. In no way is this support. I'm just an HP-UX sysadmin
anyway, what would I know about PC's ! =)
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