From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 08:57:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA03817 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:57:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyslexic.phoenix.net (root@dyslexic.phoenix.net [199.3.233.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA03792 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:56:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gemohler@localhost) by dyslexic.phoenix.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA10121; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:56:56 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:56:56 -0600 (CST) From: Geoff Mohler X-Sender: gemohler@dyslexic.phoenix.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: HP Vectra Booting Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Im working with an HP Vectra VL, Series4 5/166. It has 16Mb of ram, and a 1.2G hard drive. It came with W95 and worked fine..of course. I have tried to install FBSD about 5 times now..and although the install goes great, the machine refuses to boot FBSD. The machine responds "Read Error" when it jumps from the floppy to the HD to boot. I have set the CMOS to both standard and extended translation for each installation and get the same results. I also tried to reformat and install DOS6, and it seems to install perfect, but even DOS gets the same results.."Read Error". I can install BSD and boot a floppy, and do a boot: wd(0,a)kernel, and that works perfectly as well. All hardware and the HD itself check out perfectly in diagnostics. Now..even though it will not boot DOS6 by itself, and will not boot FBSD by itself, it WILL boot boot-manager...and let me go to either DOS6 or FBSD. Any ideas why this will not boot FBSD by itself? It seems to me that since I formatted FBSD the first time..the machine it not prepared to accept a foreign boot sector. "Quark & Odo in '96. Law, order, and a tidy profit." Geoff Mohler Operations Engineer Charter Communications/Phoenix Data Net