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From: "Harry Starr" <starr3@gccs.com.au>
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem booting using /boot/loader
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:34:07 +1000
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Oops! Forgot the BIOS stuff.

BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS drive D: is disk2

an lsdev to loader gives the expected response:
<snip>
disk1: BIOS drive C:
    disk1s1a: FFS  64MB  (0 - 131072)
    disk1s1b: swap 128MB (131072-393216)
    disk1s1e: FFS 3904MB (393216 - 8388608)

Harry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com>
To: Harry Starr <starr3@gccs.com.au>
Cc: current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Problem booting using /boot/loader


>Harry Starr wrote:
>> 
>> Can anyone shed some light on this for me ??
>
>Can you provide the bios disk assignment shown by loader?
>
>> The previous boot/loader (Jan 11) booted this configuration fine!!
>
>Upon installation, the old loader is preserver as /boot/loader.old.
>Can you confirm it is still working? The problem just might be with
>the kernel, instead of the loader...
>
>(Did you recompile the kernel too, btw?)
>
>--
>Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
>dcs@newsguy.com
>
> If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from
>it, you haven't gotten market rate.
>
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