From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 4 21: 6:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D5514DE6 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:06:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01405; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 20:50:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911050450.UAA01405@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Randy Bush Cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Nov 1999 10:25:44 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 20:50:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > - Boot the install floppy. > > i presume you mean the kern.flp floppy. > > > When the little spinning widget appears > > and stops, hit the spacebar. At the 'boot:" prompt, type > > wd(0,a)/boot/loader > > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c) > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c) > No /boot/loader > > should i not be telling it that it's the second slice in some way? Nope, you're probably SOL. It looks like your BIOS isn't going to let you go past 8GB. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message