From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 18:31:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA04575 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:31:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA04563 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:31:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00255; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:30:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Guido van Rooij cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 install failure: booting from fd0, not sd0 In-Reply-To: <199608260933.LAA08780@gvr.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Guido van Rooij wrote: > I've installed 2.1.5 on a DEC Celebris XL 5133 and it fails: > The installation itsself went OK. But when booting the new system, > it tries to boot off the floppy drive. When I manually enter > sd(0,a)kernel as the device to boot from, it does boot however. > The disk is a Quantum Fireball SCSI disk hanging on a NCR controller. How odd. Sounds like the boot blocks are completely confused as to the boot device. You are booting from the _hard disk_ and not the install floppy, are you? You may need to rewrite the bootblocks using disklabel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major