From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 21:41:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6699716A425 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:41:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from portieowner@yahoo.com) Received: from web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BB8543D7E for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:40:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from portieowner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 22545 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Nov 2005 21:40:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=YsBuGRIuqrrBhVuPuO5ghoDtL1kkdE2VK/5DZcxSTwXR/RT1avAYoXxL5N5j7KJ+x/CS32cM3BWN9r39S9iPQ6o2VTfi1dmcmtpc0FFTrRlJMnxYkJzC0nN+zUhTbVsOX+O6Y3GVd3f8mj02Cl4Xb3cspj432g9Zi32V7J6ag0w= ; Message-ID: <20051107214059.22542.qmail@web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.8.65.72] by web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:40:58 PST Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:40:58 -0800 (PST) From: Portie Owner To: Portie Owner , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20051104175442.98421.qmail@web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Non-system disk or disk error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:41:10 -0000 I don't know if this is poor netiquete or not but I am bumping my own question in case anyone missed it. Basically my 5.4 installation will not boot up from a "warm" reboot but will boot with no problems from a power-off situation. Thanks. --- Portie Owner wrote: > I am sure there is an easy solution to this but here > is my problem, and it is driving me nuts. > > The error message on boot is "Non-system disk or > disk > error". I only get this message if I do a warm > reboot > with no power off. If I halt the system and power > off > and restart it boots right up. > > Computer is a Compaq AP500 (P-II 450mhz, 700MB Ram, > Adaptec SCSI card). The system has two SCSI drives, > "C:" which is at ID 1 and "D:" which is at ID 2. > The > OS is FreeBDS 5.4, standard installation using the > FreeBSD-only boot manager (I also tried the > alternate > FreeBSD boot choice). No other OSs reside on the > machine and I have tried to start with a clean DOS > Fdisked bachine before installing FreeBSD. The PC > does not have the Compaq bios partition installed > but > that does not seem to matter. I have not been able > to > upgrade the ROM BIOS on this machine, but the Compaq > Diagnostics and Setup programs seem to work and > report > the right information about the disks. I even tried > disabling floppy and CD media boot but that dodn't > help either. > > Thanks, Portie > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in > one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com