From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 22:11:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA17854 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA17849 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:11:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA28421; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:11:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:11:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: softweyr@xmission.com, wes@phbtsus.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubled FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: <199611140314.UAA00254@obie.softweyr.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 Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. Hm, it would appear the boot block on the disk is damaged or something so that the bootblocks don't appear. What does fdisk report on the disk in the way of partitions? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major