From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 19:15:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA08085 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:15:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slc193.modem.xmission.com [204.228.136.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA08074 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:15:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA00254; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 20:14:27 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 20:14:27 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199611140314.UAA00254@obie.softweyr.com> From: Wes Peters To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Troubled FreeBSD installation Reply-To: softweyr@xmission.com, wes@phbtsus.com Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I wrote earlier about having trouble installing the latest 2.2 SNAP over the net. I've moved home now, and taken a hard drive with me, and now have the following situation: My system at home has FreeBSD 2.1.5 installed on sd0. I removed my wd0, which holds Win95, and put my drive from work in it's place. I installed 2.1.5-RELEASE from my scsi CD-ROM; everything went fine. When I reboot, however, I cannot boot from the IDE drive. This is the same behavior I noted at work. Here at home, since I have the SCSI drive, I can hit F5 to move to the second disk, load the boot loader from there, and at the Boot: prompt type wd(0,a)/kernel and load the system from wd0. I still cannot boot directly from wd0 however. I need to have this system up tomorrow; we're supposed to be moving our entire CVS tree over by Friday. Can anybody think of why the boot program isn't getting run correctly? I tried disklabel -B wd0 to see if installing new bootblocks would help, but this had no effect on bootability. Again, thanks in advance for any help that might be offered. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com