From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 20:31:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA13507 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA12786 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00712; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:25:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:25:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Darryl Okahata cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error on Boot : "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0" In-Reply-To: <199609250435.AA002426146@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Somehow the boot loader can't find the disk or the kernel. What is the > > slice layout on that disk? It may be out of range. > > Assuming that the error message in the subject is accurate, the > loader's trying to load the very first sector on the disk (the initial > boot sector with the fdisk/slice info). Unfortunately, it seems to be > failing (and the code keeps on trying and trying, which is why the error > message appears again and again). I don't know why it's doing this, > unless the disk is bad (which seems unlikely, as it's possible to boot > from wd(1,a)kernel -- maybe the wrong disk is being used?). Perhaps. What's your machine's disk configuration? I've known computers which have many disks spread between SCSI and IDE can confuse biosboot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major