Hi I am having some problems with a machine I recently rebuilt; I suspect either the drive geometry or something else in the boot process. The machine has to be booted "manually".
Situation: I installed FreeBSD 3.1 on a 4G SCSI disk that had had Current on it before (CURRENT snaps wouldn't boot). At the F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk 1 prompt, the machine just beeps, and does not reboot. (The other disk is a 2G SCSI) Drive geometry is 64 heads, 32 sectors and N(>1024) tracks. The a partition is the first and it is only 32MB. Disklabel looks OK. If I play around (Hit F5 or space or enter), I get "Invalid partition" errors. Hitting enter at that stage gets me a Boot: prompt. The only thing that gets an actial boot is typing 0:da(1,a)/boot/loader. Then both disks are visible and fine. Both disks have had fdisk -b and disklabel -B done to them. Any clues? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
