Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:05:33 +0300 From: Anand Buddhdev <arb@anand.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HP netserver E50 won't boot Message-ID: <19981230100533.A11020@iconnect.co.ke>
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We've got an HP netserver E50 with phoenix bios, Adaptec SCSI 2490 controller, IDE CDROM drive. We've installed FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE over the 'net. It's installed with a partition entry, and FreeBSD's default boot manager, booteasy. However, after installation, booteasy runs, and gives a prompt like: FreeBSD.. F? When we select F1, the OS doesn't boot, but instead the prompt is repeated. After a while, we tried to use the OS-BS 1.35 bootmanager. On bootup, we get the OS-BS boot prompt, and when we select '1' to boot FreeBSD, we instead get an error message "no operating system". We have been successfully able to boot the system using the boot floppy, and specifying 0:da(0,a)kernel at the boot: prompt. So the OS has been installed OK. It's just that it won't boot from the boot manager. finally, we have even tried to install the OS using the "dangerously dedicated" mode when doing the fdisk, but again, after the computer starts up, it gives us the error message "read error". Again, we can start with the boot floppy, and successfully boot with 0:da(0,a)kernel. We know we can install a small DOS partition and boot off that, or even start with a floppy disk everytime, but this is not what is ideal, since we can't always be around to do that in case of power failure or something. Does anyone have any experiences with this type of problem? -- Anand To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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