From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 20:26:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA11282 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:26:34 -0700 (PDT) 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 UAA11248 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00716; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:26:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Matthew Stein cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error on Boot : "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0" In-Reply-To: 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, 25 Sep 1996, Matthew Stein wrote: > > Somehow the boot loader can't find the disk or the kernel. What is the > > slice layout on that disk? It may be out of range. > > I thought it might be out of range too, but if I enter wd(1,a)kernel at > the prompt, the system runs. As for the slice layout, here's a df. > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd1a 31775 13753 15480 47% / > /dev/wd1s1e 29727 1268 26081 5% /var > /dev/wd1s1f 658095 236746 368702 39% /usr > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc That's not the slice layout I was thinking of. Capture the output of fdisk(8) and disklabel(8) and post that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major