From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 31 08:54:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01954 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 08:54:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.soffen.com (www.soffen.com [206.119.32.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01948 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 08:54:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@soffen.com) Received: by mail.soffen.com from localhost (router,SLMail V2.5); Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:53:13 -0500 Received: by mail.soffen.com from www.soffen.com (206.119.32.97::mail daemon,SLMail V2.5); Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:53:13 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980131115312.03452100@soffen.com> X-Sender: "Matthew Soffen" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:53:12 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Matthew Soffen" Subject: New problem.. It will not boot from HD... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Ok. I finally got FreeBSD to install via anon. ftp. I have FreeBSD fully installed on the system. But if I try to reboot the system, it gives me "read error". But if I boot the "boot" floppy then give it the command wd(0,a)kernel it will boot from the HD without any complaints.. This HD was running WinNT before without any problems (I didn't bother keeping NT on it) so I would hope the boot sector is ok. I tried to set boot.config to contain only this line: wd(0,a)kernel But that didn't help. Anyone have sugestions ? I mean, if I had to use the floppy and make it go to the HD, I can live with it.. I would prefer not to though. This will be my "router" and I would like to have it able to reboot automatically (for obvious reasons). The system is a Digital Venturis 560 with an 810MB IDE HD and 3Com network card with 32MB of RAM installed and 4x Sony CD ROM. Thanks in advance for any help ... Matt Soffen ============================================== Boss - "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers." Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX." Boss - "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said never mind." - Dilbert - ==============================================