Re: bootloader reboots

[Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :I just tried to swap the disks around. The default boot loader F1 BSD 
> :thing just beeped at me, so I swapped back and installed GAG. This 
> :managed to get a little further. I couldn't really see what was written 
> :as it rebooted too quick, but it didn't get as far as the ASCII menu. It 
> :looked like it might have been the first two lines getting up to that 
> :menu, whatever they say.
> :
> :What would be the possible causes of this? Is it correctable somehow?
> :-- 
>
>     A beep usually means that boot0 cannot find a valid secondary boot
>     sector in the slice.  This is often due to CHS vs LBA confusion.  I
>     usually tell the BIOS to use LBA mode and use boot0cfg (when using 
>     the DragonFly boot0) to turn on packet mode.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That's probably it then. So I should force it to LBA mode in the other 
machines BIOS (if I can, it's an old machine) and I should run boot0cfg 
again with packet mode on?

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