From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 02:15:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA14652 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 02:15:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (root@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA14573 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 02:14:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA18931 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 18:14:36 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: haywire.DIALix.COM: news set sender to usenet-request@haywire.dialix.com using -f Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:16:09 GMT From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site References: <199603290358.WAA19433@umbc10.umbc.edu> Subject: Re: Booting problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199603290358.WAA19433@umbc10.umbc.edu>, ssriva1@gl.umbc.edu (Sandip Srivastava) writes: >I am trying to boot freebsd using the fbsdboot.exe file, but when I run this >command from DOS, I get the following message: > >bad disklabelCan't find /kernel > >My C: drive is all DOS/Windows. On the D: drive I have a 100Mb DOS partition >and the rest is devoted to freebsd. What could be the problem? > I think so. The problem is that fbsdboot is looking for the kernel/ root file system on wd0 (the first IDE drive). I think there is some option that you can use with fbsdboot to feed it a kernel readable from DOS (ie copy the kernel over to C: and call fbsdboot with it as an argument. I think you will find a bat file on the CD-ROM which does the same thing. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+