Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:28:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not booting after install. Message-ID: <199807010128.SAA09129@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:36:40 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980630192918.28856A-100000@vnode>
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> > You didn't list a specific failure message... > > Well, it didn't give a specific failure... I guess these messages popped > up. > > Boot: > empty partition: > Can't find kernel. This sure as hell isn't "can't mount root". This means that BIOS disk 0x80 is not sd0, ie. your BIOS probes your SCSI controllers in a different order to FreeBSD. This is because someone thought it would be better to do their own PCI enumeration rather than use the BIOS. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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