6.1-RELEASE won't boot on Compaq 1580

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sat, 2006-Jul-01 08:02:56 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>I've just acquired a couple of old Compaq Armada laptops.  I can
>successfully install 6.1-RELEASE but the system won't boot from
>the HDD:  The MBR menu displays but pressing F1 (the FreeBSD
>partition) just beeps.  Pressing F3 (the Compaq configuration
>partition) works.

For the archives: Rebuilding (and re-installing) boot0 from the
sources on the 6.1-RELEASE CD using the default options (no
/etc/make.conf) fixes the problem.  I have no idea why the boot0 on
the CD doesn't work for me (though the two boot0's are definitely
different).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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