From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 11:25:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10118 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:25:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA10110 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:25:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA05388; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:24:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:24:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, metcalf@snet.net Subject: Re: How does the 'boot' command know the default boot device? In-Reply-To: <9701258568.AA856893185@ccgate0.bms.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > I was wondering how the 'boot' command which begins the FreeBSD > bootstrap procedure knows what the default boot device is? I believe it assumes it's the disk it's on, ieif the booter is on wd0 it assumes there is some slice on wd0 that contains FreeBSD. > I > currently have the problem that whenever I try to boot my > FreeBSD 2.1.5 system, the default boot device is set to 'fd(43)', > which does not exist. This causes a spontaneous reboot of the > computer and forces me to have to type the following to the boot > prompt every time I want to start FreeBSD Sounds like the booter is broke. I wish I knew how to fix it, it involves twidding with disklabel which I'm not familiar with. You need to reinstall it, though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major