From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 11:28:51 2003 Return-Path: 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 D6DA616A4BF for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD59243F3F for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daniel.fisher@vt.edu) Received: from dagger.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-dagger [10.1.1.11]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h7JISmv4354156 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:28:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psych.iad.vt.edu (psych.iad.vt.edu [128.173.13.108]) by dagger.cc.vt.edu (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.2-CR) with SMTP id BUF85148; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:28:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:28:44 -0400 From: Daniel Fisher To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030819142844.4ad22095.daniel.fisher@vt.edu> Organization: Virginia Tech X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: hard drive boot error message X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:28:52 -0000 I receive the following error just before root is mounted. RTC BIOS diagnostic error 18 It looks to me like the kernel does not like the info the BIOS is telling it about my hard drive. I'm not experiencing any disk problems, so is this something I should try to fix? I'm also dual booting to windows and I don't want to break that. btw...the disk is a 120GB serial ATA and I'm booting REL 5.1. -- Daniel Fisher