From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 31 02:46:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA06662 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:46:08 -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 CAA06654 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:46:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA00901; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:46:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:46:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Strange problem with default boot device In-Reply-To: <3336D473.2229@ccMail.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 Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > Hello, > > Since my upgrade to FreeBSD-2.1.5, I have been getting a weird problem > at boot time. Under 2.1.5, whenever I boot the installation floppy, > I get the following line: > > [43:]fd(43,a)/kernel > > as the default boot device. Since there is no fd(43), I get a > spontaneous reboot and am forced to type fd(0) each time to boot the > floppy successfully. This strange disease has infected booting from my > wd(0) device as well. Whenever I try to boot from wd(0), I get the > same line as above: > > [43:]fd(43,a)/kernel > > Here, of course, I am forced to type wd(0) at the boot prompt to avoid > a spontaneous reboot. Odd. You probably need to reinstall your bootblocks; check out the disklabel(8) man page and the -B option. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major