From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 9 11:35:54 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA16077 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 11:35:54 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA16071 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 11:35:51 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA10426; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:35:35 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA10364; Thu, 9 Feb 95 13:34:10 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9502091934.AA10364@olympus> Subject: Re: Install problem To: eprice@rmii.com (Emmett Price) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:34:09 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Emmett Price" at Feb 8, 95 07:11:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1041 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.0 for the first time from a CD. I have > an older 386 (generic) with a 406MB WD caviar which is disk 0 (master) and > is entirely devoted to DOS. I purchased an 850MB WD caviar to use entirely > for BSD. It is the secondary (slave) on the IDE controller. My BIOS and > controller won't support the 850, but I was able to enter the correct > geometry in the BIOS. > > F1 for DOS or F5 for the second disk. I choose F5 which gives me the choice > of F1 for FreeBSD or F5 for the first disk. I choose F1 and get the boot > prompt. I enter hd(1,a)/kernel per the instructions from the > troubleshooting read me file. the system boots and then "panics" out unable > to mount the root filesystem. > Enter wd(1,a)/kernel hd is if you have 1 IDE and 1 SCSI. Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________