From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 15 1:17: 4 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 01:17:02 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADC437B402 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:17:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 146qz6-0002LS-00; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:17:00 +0000 To: "Donn Miller" , , "Cliff Sarginson" From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: 4.2 Not booting problem Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:17:00 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cliff Sarginson" > To: > 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