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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