From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 19:16:58 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA20098 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:16:58 -0700 Received: from vespucci.iquest.com (vespucci.iquest.com [199.170.120.42]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA20085 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:16:55 -0700 Received: (from richj@localhost) by vespucci.iquest.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA23014; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 21:16:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 21:16:48 -0500 From: Richard Johnson Message-Id: <199507280216.VAA23014@vespucci.iquest.com> To: msmith@adtrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> Section of original message... >> I can boot FreeBSD by using the install floppy, and entering >> "wd(2,a)/kernel" at the boot: prompt. How can I fix my machine so that >> fbsdboot will let me boot?? Any suggestions would be helpful. Mike Smith spoke: >Can you enter the above at the FreeBSD boot: prompt on the harddisk and have >it work? Herin lies the problem...Since I do not have the boot manager installed, and fbsdboot gives the message "bad dislabek Cannot load /kernel" then I cannot get a boot: prompt from the harddisk, and this leaves only the boot floppy. Richard richj@iquest.com >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ >]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ >]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[