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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.nstn.ca!ott.istar!istar.net!tor.istar!n2tor.istar!ftn.net!news From: Tim Writer <Tim.Writer@ftlsol.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't boot after successful install Date: 16 Jul 1996 00:30:21 -0400 Organization: ftn Internet Lines: 41 Sender: tim@snoopy.ftlsol.com Message-ID: <m3raqcq0pu.fsf@snoopy.ftlsol.com> References: <m3wx07kz6p.fsf@snoopy.ftlsol.com> <4saqaj$eh@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.210.59.158 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > Tim Writer <Tim.Writer@ftlsol.com> wrote: > > > I have two IDE disks and a SCSI disk with FreeBSD installed on the > > SCSI disk. I try to boot hd(2,a)/kernel (via the boot prompt from the > > boot floppy) but all I get is: > > hd(2,a) doesn't work. That's funny, it's working now (see below). > Well, after looking at your device configuration, it looks like you've > got an all-SCSI machine? If so, the pseudo-device `hd' wasn't for you > anyway. It's as simple as using ``sd(0,a)/kernel'' then. Did I forget to mention that I have two IDE drives? In this case, 'sd(0,a)/kernel' doesn't work. > For more weird cases (combinations of wd and sd disks other than wd0 + > sd0 [...+ sdN]), updating the bootblocks to the most recent version is > probably the best option. What do you mean by, "the most recent versions?" In the end, I re-installed the OS/2 boot manager (I had OS/2 on this machine some time ago). It can "boot" the SCSI disk, giving me the normal FreeBSD boot prompt. At that point, 'hd(2,a)/kernel' boots FreeBSD successfully! I still can't boot from a floppy. It's as if the "boot loader" can't see my SCSI disk when it's loaded from a floppy. Any ideas how I can do this. I always like to have a backup method of booting. Tim -- Tim Writer Tim.Writer@ftlsol.com FTL Solutions Inc. Toronto, Ontario, CANADA