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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: install of 2.2.2 on old EISA ICL FX486/66 Date: 15 Jul 1997 20:55:48 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5qgo4k$970@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33CBC572.AF9720AB@lab.unisource.ch> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44492 Juergen Baier <baier@lab.unisource.ch> wrote: > I can install everything on my "new" :-) ICL FX486/66 > but when I reboot after the installation he wont start. Explain ``won't start''. ``My car doesn't drive!'' is not a very helpful error description. > 1.) can I install only the boot part? > I think the rest is ok I think the rest is not ok. :) I think you've erroneously botched your fdisk table. You can re-install, using the correct values, but this first requires you to know what went wrong. You could perhaps also fix the table using fdisk (e.g. from a fixit floppy), but this requires a little understanding of how the partition layout and fdisk crap is working. (I've successfully guided people to do this, but this took me about half an hour of a phone call, so it's most likely impossible to explain in a Usenet posting.) > 2.) what is the syntax if i want to boot at the boot prompt > from sd0 on an daptec 1542 > > boot:sd0a/kernel is that right???? sd(0,a)/kernel But that's the default already, so spelling it explicitly won't help you either. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)