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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: 2.1.5 install failure: booting from fd0, not sd0
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:32:16 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960826183011.219B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Aug 26, 96 06:30:57 pm"
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Doug White wrote:
> 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?

Yes, booting from hard disk.

> 
> You may need to rewrite the bootblocks using disklabel.

That's the first thing I did....without luck.

-Guido