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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!ns2.qnis.net!not-for-mail From: phil@ns2.qnis.net (Phil Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: bad boot blocks? Date: 20 Oct 1996 13:21:56 -0000 Organization: QuadraNet Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <54d91k$fe@ns2.qnis.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns2.qnis.net Reply-Preference: SMTP (phil@qnis.net) Hello: I'm running 2.1.5-RELEASE on a machine here in the office. I have a NCR 53c825 wide SCSI (ncr0) controller, and two SCSI drives. For some god awful reason -- when I boot the machine, I get the standard choice: F1 .. BSD F5 .. Disk 2 I have to press F5, and then I get: F1 .. BSD F5 .. Disk 1 And if I press F1, I get the FreeBSD boot prompt. I'm assuming this is because I don't have the boot blocks installed on sd0? At the boot prompt, I have to type sd(0,a)kernel to boot my kernel on the first drive. I've referenced the handbook, apropos'd "boot" and "kernel", and even tried disklabeling -B sd0, with no luck. If anyone can give me a pointer as to what I should do, I'd really appreciate it. Phil Jensen QuadraNet Internet Services Network Administrator / Manager http://www.qnis.net/~phil