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Date:      Mon, 13 May 1996 10:53:59 -0700
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sandip Srivastava <ssriva1@umbc.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't boot FreeBSD 2.1 
Message-ID:  <199605131753.KAA00227@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 May 1996 00:12:01 EDT." <Pine.SGI.3.91.960512000448.13919A-100000@alumni.umbc.edu> 

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> I installed FreeBSD 2.1 to my second IDE drive.  I am not able to boot 
> FreeBSD.  What am I doing wrong?

Do you have the boot manager installed?

You have to poke the system into using the second disk.  BIOSes won't boot the 
second disk by default; you have to use a boot floppy or a boot manager.

>From the boot floppy Boot: prompt, type:

wd(1,a)/kernel

That should get you going.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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