From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 10:48:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA08191 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 10:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA08184 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 10:48:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCALHOST (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00227; Mon, 13 May 1996 10:53:59 -0700 Message-Id: <199605131753.KAA00227@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host LOCALHOST didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Sandip Srivastava cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot FreeBSD 2.1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 May 1996 00:12:01 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:53:59 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- > 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