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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:14:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chow Chi-Ming <cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting up FreeBSD 2.1.6
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970131151349.4014B-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199701310605.OAA05714@cuse77.se.cuhk.edu.hk>

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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote:

> 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

Then try wd(2,a)/kernel.  It's a matter of finding the target disk number.

> Just to recap my setup: 486-120 PCI 16M RAM with 3 HDDs
> 	IDE1-1  win95
> 	IDE2-1  Linux
> 	IDE2-2  FreeBSD

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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