Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:42:57 -0500 From: "Lane Holcombe" <lholcombe@ddyne.com> To: <support@cdrom.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to boot freebsd? Message-ID: <000801be8358$555754e0$54384ec7@lholcombe>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BE832E.21F6A8A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have just completed installation of freeBSD 3.1 from cdrom, but i = cannot seem to convince my computer that freeBSD exists on the = harddrive. Please help. I have one Seagate 34520A on controller zero which has a FAT, EXTENDED, = and FREEBSD partition. I believe that the freeBSD partition is named = wd0s3, because I can actually MOUNT that partition when using cdrom2 as = a 'live file system'. =20 Anyway .... When the system first starts up, I get the "boot:" prompt. I type in = "0:wd(x,a)? [where x is any number from 0 to 9]" and I get the error = "not ufs." I have also replaced the 'a" with values up to and = including "f" lane ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BE832E.21F6A8A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2014.210" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have just completed installation of = freeBSD 3.1=20 from cdrom, but i cannot seem to convince my computer that freeBSD = exists on the=20 harddrive. Please help.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have one Seagate 34520A on = controller zero=20 which has a FAT, EXTENDED, and FREEBSD partition. I believe that = the=20 freeBSD partition is named wd0s3, because I can actually MOUNT that = partition=20 when using cdrom2 as a 'live file system'. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Anyway ....</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>When the system first starts up, I get = the "boot:"=20 prompt. I type in "0:wd(x,a)? [where x is any number from 0 to 9]" = and I=20 get the error "not ufs." I have also replaced the 'a" with = values up=20 to and including "f"</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>lane</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BE832E.21F6A8A0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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