From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 03:40:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA05083 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 03:40:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from colossus.dyn.ml.org (dburr@pm0-17.sba1.avtel.net [207.71.218.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA05011 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 03:39:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr@colossus.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from dburr@localhost) by colossus.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA15794; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 03:39:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199803060752.XAA05987@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 03:39:14 -0800 (PST) Organization: Starfleet Command From: Donald Burr To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: questions-digest V4 #102 Cc: ckempf@enigami.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My secret spy satellite informs me that on 06-Mar-98, questions-digest wrote: > I have tried specifying the boot device as '0:sd(0,a)/kernel -s' (and > several variations), but that doesn't seem to help. It decompresses the > kernel, so I am pretty sure it is finding it OK. If you have a sd0 and a wd0, you need to specify the boot as: 1:sd(0,a)kernel ^ note the "1" It says so (or should, anyway) in the boot messages (right before the boot: prompt). Try this, maybe it will help... --- Donald Burr - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message