On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wrote:
tfrank I saw the crash/assert type scenario if the boot blocks are not installed
tfrank properly.
tfrank Ie the MBR is updated with the bootmgr (F1 .. bit) but the 2nd/3rd stages
tfrank were corrupted somehow.
tfrank (In my case I accidentally overwrote the
, 2004 10:08 PM
To: Mike Newell
Cc: Tony Frank; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Boot loop in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE after install
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:48:04PM -0500, Mike Newell wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wrote:
tfrank While I cannot perhaps comment on your problem, you
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Mike Newell wrote:
Well THAT'S weird...
I wondered if there might be some strange data left on the drive (I had a
4.7-RELEASE install on it prior to this), so I stopped the system in POST
and entered the Adaptec system utilities. I then did a
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wrote:
tfrank Hi there,
tfrank
tfrank Can anyone help? Is there any way to slow the bootup process so I can at
tfrank least read the errors?
tfrank
tfrank While I cannot perhaps comment on your problem, you can try either pressing
tfrank 'pause' key or
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:48:04PM -0500, Mike Newell wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wrote:
tfrank While I cannot perhaps comment on your problem, you can try either pressing
tfrank 'pause' key or 'scrolllock' which might help depending on where the problems
tfrank are occuring.
Hi there,
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:26:18AM -0500, Mike Newell wrote:
I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 410 workstation. The
system has two 18G SCSI drives (Seagate ST318203LW) on an Adaptec 7890
SCSI adaptor (BIOS V2.01.05). I've gone through the entire install and
when
I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 410 workstation. The
system has two 18G SCSI drives (Seagate ST318203LW) on an Adaptec 7890
SCSI adaptor (BIOS V2.01.05). I've gone through the entire install and
when the system tries to boot the first time the boot loader loads, then a
huge
