In a message dated 8/29/01 7:34:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I have a hard drive with 2 versions of freebsd (4.1 and 4.2) loaded on
it.
> > They boot and load ok, but when 4.1 is soft-rebooted, it stops at the
boot:
>
> > prompt and 3 strange characters are displayed (not alphanumeric)...the
> second
> >
> > partition seems fine. Backspacing over the characters and hitting
return
> > manually and the machine boots normally. Both partitions are using the
> BTX
> > loader v1.01
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Sounds like you're getting garbage in the keyboard buffer. 8(
>
> How new is the motherboard/BIOS?
>
Fairly new. Other disks work ok, and we use this motherboard on lots of
systems. Its something with the setup...the 2 freebsds on a disk I think.
Bryan
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