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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!rivendell.elvis.msk.su!newsmaster From: st@sw.ru (Stanislav Protasov) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5R installation OK; how to boot? Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 16:17:13 GMT Organization: Elvis+, Ltd. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3vljqa$53u@rivendell.elvis.msk.su> References: <3vch0k$f0e@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zombie.sw.ru X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 font@MCS.COM (Font) wrote: >I am a complete newbie to FreeBSD or other free UNIX-type systems. I >decided to try an installation on the following machine: > 486DX2/80 16MB RAM > two IDE drives used for DOS/Win > one 2 gig SCSI drive to be used for FreeBSD only on AHA 1540CF [skipped] >tried typing "hd(1,a)/kernel" when booting from the install floppy. I am not sure, since I have no opportunity to test your configuration now, but as far as I understand hd(1,a) is the partition "a" on your second hard disk, i.e. your second IDE disk. So you may try using hd(2,a) instead, it will mean "use root partition on the third hard disk". By the way, as concerned to boot manager I prefer using the one from OS/2 release. It looks very nice. St.