From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 15:14:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18106 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18101 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:14:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA04132; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:14:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:14:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Chow Chi-Ming cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting up FreeBSD 2.1.6 In-Reply-To: <199701310605.OAA05714@cuse77.se.cuhk.edu.hk> 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 Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: > Doug> On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: >>>>> "Doug" == Doug > >> White 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