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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:04:19 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), gaspar@STL-17SIMA.ARMY.MIL
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Installing to Syquest Drive
Message-ID:  <199503291904.MAA00227@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) "Re: Installing to Syquest Drive" (Mar 29, 11:38am)

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> > so I selected FreeBSD as my operating system and typed
> > sd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt.  Now my screen fills with the
> > following error echoed over and over again:
> > 
> > ERROR: C:0 H:0 S:0

This is an error that is coming from the boot blocks.  Somehow, it is
not finding a valid disklabel where it thinks there should be one.  This
is most often caused by different values for the Heads/Cyls/Sectors in
the BIOS than what FreeBSD thought.


Nate



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