On Sat, 2006-Jul-01 08:02:56 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I've just acquired a couple of old Compaq Armada laptops. I can >successfully install 6.1-RELEASE but the system won't boot from >the HDD: The MBR menu displays but pressing F1 (the FreeBSD >partition) just beeps. Pressing F3 (the Compaq configuration >partition) works.
For the archives: Rebuilding (and re-installing) boot0 from the sources on the 6.1-RELEASE CD using the default options (no /etc/make.conf) fixes the problem. I have no idea why the boot0 on the CD doesn't work for me (though the two boot0's are definitely different). -- Peter Jeremy
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