From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 10:53:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE2C37C186 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:53:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA89546; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:52:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200003291852.NAA89546@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <001e01bf9842$0e184bc0$636129cb@dragnet.com.au> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:52:22 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: dylan Subject: RE: how do i boot into the freebsd slice? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Mar-00 dylan wrote: > Hi there, > > I am getting invalid partition when I boot up, also the message 'No Boot Loader'. > I am desparately trying to boot this machine up as it has a server config on the HD. > > If I boot of a BSD CD and use FDISK the partition slice is wd0s1 > If I run label it says the paritition slice is wd0s1e > However I have tried putting in /dev/wd0s1e at the boot: prompt and it still doesnt work.. any ideas > people? Try '0:wd(0,a)' and see if that works. boot2 (which uses the boot: prompt) doesn't use /dev/ for its device naming scheme. > My previous message - http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=221109+0+current/freebsd-questions -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message