From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 08:11:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA27113 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:11:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA27107 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:10:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14596(6)>; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:10:18 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12607; Thu, 8 Feb 96 11:10:05 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08288; Thu, 8 Feb 96 11:10:04 EST Message-Id: <9602081610.AA08288@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: NIMALIN@aol.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free bsd doesnt boot fom the second (hard disk)drive! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 1996 10:21:56 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:09:59 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > i've choose the boot manager option during the installation.Even after Itried > > wih > > wd(1,a)/kernel ,it didn't give me anything.Please help me. > > If that didn't work, then the installation wasn't successful. > > Try deleting the partition and reinstalling. > > I don't know why the bootmanager won't install. You're the second or > third person with this problem. Maybe not... I installed freebsd on wd1... When I had a slice on wd0 and wd1, I could boot the wd1 kernel at the boot prompt on wd0 (boot manager never booted directly). I found when I compiled a kernel (on another machine ;-) with built in rootdev to wd1, I could run fbsdboot from the dos based kernel with compiled in rootdev... But what's the strategy to read the symbols from the kernel...lets say I have /kernel the same image as the dos based kernel... How do I say: i.e. I.e: 48 byte records] Feb 8 03:27:18 compaq /c:\kernel: scd0 at 0x320-0x323 on isa Feb 8 03:27:18 compaq /c:\kernel: scd0: Feb 8 03:27:18 compaq /c:\kernel: ep0 not probed due to I/O address conflict wi th ed1 at 0x300 Feb -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom