From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 21 16:58:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15E937B401 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39BB43E75 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6EC1F72FCC; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD5372FC5; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:56:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Pete French Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro EN booting problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020921165408.D57425-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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