Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:17:00 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: "Donn Miller" <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, <stable@freebsd.org>, "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: 4.2 Not booting problem Message-ID: <E146qz6-0002LS-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net> > To: <stable@freebsd.org> > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:03 AM > Subject: 4.2 Not booting problem > > > I installed 4.2 on my test machine. > > A Tulip P90. 48MB Ram, 2Gig disk. > > Installation went smoothly. > > But, when re-booting, nothing appeared on the screen. > > Did it say "invalid partition table"? No .. with "non dangerous" it said nothing, with dangerous it just said "Read error" > > > My final solution was to installa small linux system on it, then > > install BSD and use Lilo. This worked fine. > > Sounds like you forgot to set the root partition "active". Have I mistakenly assumed that if I tell BSD to use the whole disk, and to install it's boot apparatus, it will also set the root as bootable ? I certainly didn;t have to do that with 4.0.. > - Donn > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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