From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 30 18:43:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25618 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:43:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25520 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09129; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807010128.SAA09129@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Chris Coleman cc: Terry Lambert , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not booting after install. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:36:40 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:28:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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