Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:56:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro EN booting problem Message-ID: <20020921165408.D57425-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E17sKYD-00038d-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Pete French wrote: > I moved a disk system from a Compaq AP400 workstation to > a Deskpro EN - this consisted of a 4200 RAID controller and > a set of discs. [...] > So last night we decided to scrub the redundant diagnostics partion and > put 2000 back onto the whole of that first section of the disc. Bad move. :-) You just erased your BIOS setup too. > Its puzzling the hell out of me - what does the 'beep' mean from the > boot manager ? How can removing one partitoon affect a completely > differnt bit of the drive ? It means it wasn't able to boot the partition since it couldn't find it. That usually occurs when the geometry changes to a layout that is not compatible with the BIOS. The canonical solution is to: 1) zero out the front of the disk to wipe out the previous partition table 2) Use a DOS/win98 boot floppy and construct a new partition table with a single DOS partition in it with fdisk 3) Crank up your install, delete the DOS partition and put your BSD partition there That usually gets things back to sanity. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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