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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Error on Boot : "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0" Date: 4 Oct 1996 05:06:50 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <532ukq$t8e@itchy.serv.net> References: <52oj41$3jg@thunder.mgl.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net Keywords: disk, boot, wd1, error, freebsd In article <52oj41$3jg@thunder.mgl.ca>, Matthew Stein <matt@bdd.net> wrote: >I've installed FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP on a machine which previously ran >FreeBSD without error. Now that I've reinstalled, and changed the boot >drive, I'm at a loss. > >When booting off of /dev/wd1, the boot process stops right after the first >prompt, and scrolls this error repeatedly up the screen. If I enter >"wd(1,a)kernel" at the first prompt, the machine boots perfectly. > Sounds like a bad floppy to me. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson