From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 11:02:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA25963 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:02:24 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA25914 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:01:25 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA00227; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:04:19 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:04:19 -0700 From: Nate Williams 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) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), gaspar@STL-17SIMA.ARMY.MIL Subject: Re: Installing to Syquest Drive Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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