Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:05:56 +0800 From: Chow Chi-Ming <cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting up FreeBSD 2.1.6 Message-ID: <199701310605.OAA05714@cuse77.se.cuhk.edu.hk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970130211106.28180A-100000@localhost> References: <199701300844.QAA04516@cuse77.se.cuhk.edu.hk> <Pine.BSI.3.94.970130211106.28180A-100000@localhost>
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> writes: There have been fewer reponses than I expected. Doug was the only one kind enough to reply. I may have missed the obvious, but please give me some pointers so that I can start evaluating FreeBSD and read the docs that come with the system. I am sure FreeBSD is a good system, but it means nothing to me if I can't boot it up. Doug> On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: >>>>> "Doug" == Doug >> White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> writes: Doug> In the meantime, you >> can boot by typing >> Doug> wd(3,a)/kernel >> I tried it last night with no luck! I used the installation floppy and typed "wd(3,a)/kernel" at the boot prompt and the screen was filled quickly with messages: ... Error: D:0x83 C:0 H:1 S:1 Error: D:0x83 C:0 H:1 S:1 ... Just to recap my setup: 486-120 PCI 16M RAM with 3 HDDs IDE1-1 win95 IDE2-1 Linux IDE2-2 FreeBSD Installed via the novice route and chose to intall a boot manager in one of the screens. No extra packages were installed as I wanted to get a minimal system up quickly. In the installation there wasn't a chance to prepare a boot floppy. With the fixit floppy, I can see the FBSD files installed on IDE2-2 but did not have access to the floppy to try preparing one myself. I am stuck. Doug> At the Boot: prompt. >> Thanks. But is this documented in more detail on the CDs I have >> (WC FreeBSD 2.1.6 2cd set)? Doug> The boot(8) man page has details on the Boot: prompt system. Thanks. I wish I could read boot(8). Any help is appreciated. -- Billy C.-M. Chow <cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk> Department of Systems Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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