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From: lerland@icrt.demon.co.uk
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Subject: No boot after installation: just "Read error"
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>Number:         9856
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       No boot after installation: just "Read error"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    rnordier
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb  1 06:20:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Feb 15 12:34:30 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Mon Feb 15 12:35:47 PST 1999
>Originator:     Lars G. Erlandsen
>Release:        2.2.8
>Organization:
Inter-Connect RealTime Ltd
>Environment:
Cannot boot, so cannot perform "uname -a",
however, machine is a standard Dell XPS R400 with IDE disk and Adaptec 2940 (narrow) SCSI connected to Seagate ST34371N 4.1Gbyte disk, and ISA NE2000 network card (0x300, IRQ10)


>Description:
Installation goes OK (disabled as much as possible in kernel, except IDE, CDROM, serial, parallell, console, network card, mouse, SCSI
Tried both LBA-reported cylinder/head/sector count (528/255/63), and physical count (5178/10/164, corrupts disk).
Created single primary partition (tried several sizes between 200 Mbytes and 1 Gbyte), both as 1st and 2nd primary partition on IDE disk, and 1st and 2nd primary partition on SCSI disk.
I let the installation utility distribute the slices inside.
Installation went OK (X Windows a pig to set up, ignored it in the end - Linux is a doddle to set up!).
On first boot after installation, the bios always reports "Read error", and that is the end of progress.
Similarily, I have installed Linux RedHat 5.2 in all of the above combinations, and NEVER had any problems.
I installed both 1.5, 2.0.5, and 2.2 on my old trusted 486 DX2/66 over the years (also on Adaptec SCSI), and had no problems, so have we gone backwards since then???
I'm really sorry to see Linux sail past my favourite over many years. This has been a real disappointment.

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>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->rnordier 
Responsible-Changed-By: rnordier 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Feb 1 10:22:26 PST 1999 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Not the new boot code, apparently, but someone has to look at this. 

From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To: lerland@icrt.demon.co.uk
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/9856: No boot after installation: just "Read error"
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:19:57 +0200 (SAT)

 lerland@icrt.demon.co.uk wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         9856
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       No boot after installation: just "Read error"
 
 > >Release:        2.2.8
 
 > >Description:
 [ ... ]
 
 > On first boot after installation, the bios always reports "Read
 > error", and that is the end of progress.  Similarily, I have installed
 > Linux RedHat 5.2 in all of the above combinations, and NEVER had any
 > problems.  I installed both 1.5, 2.0.5, and 2.2 on my old trusted 486
 > DX2/66 over the years (also on Adaptec SCSI), and had no problems,
 > so have we gone backwards since then???
 
 > I'm really sorry to see Linux sail past my favourite over many
 > years. This has been a real disappointment.
 
 There have been no substantial changes to the boot code on the 2.2
 branch, though all the relevant code has, in fact, been rewritten
 for FreeBSD 3.x/4.x.
 
 As everything seems to point to some misconfiguration which occurred
 during installation, we'll have to ask you for copies of your MBR
 (sector 0 of disk), plus copies of your boot blocks (sectors 0-15
 of partition or "slice") in order to investigate this further.
 
 FreeBSD commands to do this would be something like
 
     dd if=/dev/rwd0 size=512 count=1 >mbr
     dd if=/dev/rwd0s1 size=512 count=16 >bb
 
 assuming that your / filesystem is located on /dev/wd0s1a.
 
 --
 Robert Nordier
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: rnordier 
State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 15 12:34:30 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
After extensive off-line discussion, the originator suggested that 
the PR be closed. 
>Unformatted:
