From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 18:42:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA01103 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 18:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixer.visi.com (root@mixer.visi.com [204.73.178.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01098 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 18:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thumper.visi.com (ekholm@thumper.visi.com [204.73.178.3]) by mixer.visi.com (8.8.6/8.7.5) with SMTP id UAA08579 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 20:42:01 -0500 (CDT) Posted-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 20:42:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 20:42:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Ekholm To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: first boot problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have just installed a minimal FreeBSD 1.2.1.7 (I did not use 2.2.2 because I have 48MB of memory) Any ways, I have winNT on a 1.2 gig IDE HD used as primary master I have a IDE Sony CDU-311 as primary slave. I have a 250MB HD used as secondary master for FreeBSD (200 MB root partation, 50MB swap) I got it installed ok, I chose to just use the MBR (not booteasy) on the primary slave. my hope was to add FreeBSD to the WinNT boot menu. What I wanted to do is boot from floppy, and use 'dd' to copy the boot block to floppy. so I was going to boot FreeBSD from the floppy. I got to the boot prompt and typed wd(2,a)/kernel and I got a infinate loop of this: D:0X82 C:0 H:0 S:0 What happend? -Mike -- ekholm@visi.com | http://www.visi.com/~ekholm (now up!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Time's fun when your having flies" -Kermit the Frog