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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!doc.ic.ac.uk!kd From: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kostis Dryllerakis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 boot problem... Date: 5 Nov 93 11:29:42 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 26 Message-ID: <kd.752498982@confucius> References: <2b8mtd$5uo@nigel.msen.com> <2bb85p$stg@nigel.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: confucius.doc.ic.ac.uk In <2bb85p$stg@nigel.msen.com> Mark Taylor <mtaylor@cybernet.com> writes: >Allright, >To clear things up a bit: I HAVE followed the instructions >on installing FreeBSD. I made the floppies, ran 'em once >... >on the hard disk (via "copy"), and now I cannot get it to >boot from the hard drive (a SCSI disk connected to a correctly >terminated Adaptec 1542B controller). It seems that there might be a problem with Adaptec and certain SCSI disks. I have found the same problem on several systems but it was solved when I installed a "boot manager" (either OS/2 boot or OS-BS). I have not traced the reason so please enlighten me as well if you can. Hope it helps, Kostis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K J Dryllerakis Deparment of Computing Logic Programming Group Imperial College, LONDON Janet: kd @uk.ac.ic.doc Tel: +44(71) 589 5111 x5089 Uucp : kd@icdoc.UUCP Internet: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------