Re: Laptop boot issues...

[Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net>]

Get hold of a Windoze 98 StartUp floppy.  Boot it; when you get the a:> 
prompt, execute

a:> fdisk /mbr

Dave


On Friday 05 January 2001 11:37, Mike Murray wrote:
> Hey all...
>
> 	Quick question.  I've installed OBSD 2.7 on a Micron laptop
> (Celeron 500).  However, I can't get it to boot to save my life...
> I'm currently having to boot off the CD and, at the boot loader,
> reset boot device to hd0a, and go forward from there.  Not exactly a
> nice solution. Here's the problem: when I boot off the hard drive, it
> gets to "Using Drive: 0 Partition: 3", and hangs.  Never gets to the
> boot loader. At first, I thought this was an LBA issue; I've seen
> that before (where turning on or off LBA mode fixes this)... however,
> in this case, that hasn't fixed the problem.
> 	Anybody know what I'm doing wrong, and what I can do to fix it?
>
> 				Mike
>
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