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Date:      Thu, 04 Nov 1999 22:48:56 -0800
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: easyboot far into disk 
Message-ID:  <E11jdBA-0003Vg-00@rip.psg.com>
References:  <E11jRZw-000N2F-00@rip.psg.com> <199911050450.UAA01405@dingo.cdrom.com>

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>>>  - 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.

i did flash a new bios, and it did install up there at 10-13g.  it just
won't boot.

randy


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