FreeBSD 4.2 won't boot - 'read error' on boot after install

by Ashley Heat » Wed, 07 Feb 2001 06:39:00

Just installed FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.1 , installtion goes fine until it asks
to remove cdrom/floppies and reboot. Then before anything attempts to
load I get a read error when access the hard disk, then hangs there.

The machine is an old P133 ICL ErgoPro, but runs Windows 95/98 OK so I
know it will boot.

Any ideas???

TIA,
Ash

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Many people have trouble with lilo. Personally, I gave up and
boot from floppy. The added delay is irrelevant since my machine
is always on.

Previously I found that installing a boot partition only seems
to work if lilo runs on that same disk.
Then there are limitations to the position of the kernel on the
disk. Has to be somewhere in the first 512 sectors, I believe.
Check the man pages, howto's and the newsgroups.

So in short: create a boot floppy during installation and install
lilo afterwards.

Patching the kernel is not required to boot. Did I miss something?

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