From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Oct 27 7:39:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E15D37B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA86068; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:38:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:38:01 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Oliver Mills Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting into Free BSD. Message-ID: <20001027103801.A86014@blackhelicopters.org> References: <000801c04023$cb3bc9a0$05b1f0d4@cambs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000801c04023$cb3bc9a0$05b1f0d4@cambs.net>; from oliver@crownhill.co.uk on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 03:40:03PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, You should really ask this over on freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. The folks here just write docs. ==ml On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 03:40:03PM +0100, Oliver Mills wrote: > I have downloaded FreeBSD onto the Bootable floppy disks and have just attempted to Boot the computer into the FreeBSD setup Program. > > I Inserted the 1st disk (kern.flp) into the A: and booted up the PC, it then proceded to boot, but it did not ask me to insert the mfsroot.flp disk it simply told /asked me the following: > > Disk Error 0x10 (LBA=0x41) > No/Boot/Loader > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default:0:FD (0,A)/Kernel > Boot: > No Kernel > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:FD (0,a)/Kernel > > I have no idea what this means but i gather that it is not meant to happen! > > I would be very thankful if sombady could tell me what needs to be done to rectify the situation. > > Thanks > > Oliver Mills -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message