From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 18 13:36:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA06515 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA06497 Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id QAA11966; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 16:36:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id QAA07318; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 16:36:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 16:36:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Gary Palmer cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clean install won't boot from hard drive... In-Reply-To: <1408.829858733@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Umm. What happens when you boot of the hard drive? Does it get to the > `Boot:' prompt and refuse to find/load the kernel? How big is the root > partition? > Nope, doesn't even reach the boot prompt, which is why I think I might have screwed up the Boot Mgr somehow :( Root is 30meg, like the rest of my machines. Don't sure if it makes any difference, but its a 1522 controller that I'm using... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org