From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 06:16:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08135 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 06:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dhc.net (dhc.net [207.55.174.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08116 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 06:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schow@dhc.net) Received: from schow (dal40.dhc.net [207.55.174.40]) by dhc.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA25418 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:30:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980716081730.007a0530@dhc.net> X-Sender: schow@dhc.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:17:30 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Steven T. Schowiak" Subject: Install OK, cannot mount root - UGH! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think my FreeBSD installation went well. I installed it to a bootable 600M partition on my third hard drive and instruct the mother board to boot from this drive instead of C:. The other 625M is a DOS partiton accessable by Windows 98. The entire drive is still FAT16. Boot Easy comes up and I choose BSD. It goes through the gyrations and them wants to re-boot itself. A search through the archives says that I should use '1:wd(2,a)/kernel' . I try this and it returns 'bad disklabel' and 'can't find wd(2,a)/kernal'. I've been screwing around with this for several weeks now and I'm getting ready to give up. BTW during the installation, I removed all the conflicting devices (they were all devices I didn't have anyway) accept for the mouse and system console. Figured I needed those. After the fdisk partioning the disk was named 'wd2' and the partition was named 'wd2s1'. I was also wondering if the book from Walnut Creek would be of help. Waddya think? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Remove 'NO-SPAM' from my address before replying via e-mail. This - - protects me from sleazy spammers and their automated spam-bots. - - ********** - - Visit my web page at http://www.dhc.net/~schow featuring: - - The BRIEFCASE BLUES, a tribute to the Blues Brothers! - - HUMBLE PIE, classic rock's finest! - - My personal PHOTO GALLERY, featuring my award winning photos! - - WHY? TELECOMMUNICATIONS, a local DFW ISP that provided CRAPPY - - internet service and RIPPED OFF it's innocent customers! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message