From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 30 21:39:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21976 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21957 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Received: from localhost (chrisc@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA09198; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:42:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:42:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman X-Sender: chrisc@vnode To: Mike Smith cc: Terry Lambert , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not booting after install. In-Reply-To: <199807010128.SAA09129@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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( > Any way of fixing this? > -- > \\ 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