From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 7 07:20:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA05816 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:20:32 -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 HAA05806 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:20:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15388(11)>; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:19:55 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28376; Wed, 7 Feb 96 10:19:41 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04858; Wed, 7 Feb 96 10:19:40 EST Message-Id: <9602071519.AA04858@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: NIMALIN@aol.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd doesnt boot from second (hard disk)drive! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 1996 05:36:11 PST." <960207083610_315073440@mail06.mail.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:19:39 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I use a 486/sx with adirve C of 80MB and a drive D of 500 MB,and installed > freebsd 2.0.5 succesfully to 300MB of drive D (inDOS terms).But when I boot > the system it directly goes to DOS as it knows nothing about my BSD.during > the installation ichose the easy boot option.Even when I tried to boot with > boot floppy with wd(1,a)/kernel command it didn't change.Please help me. > I'm very sad! > Writing to hackers after "Rroberto@keltia.freenix.fr'S" advice. > please reply as soon as possibe to my email:NIMALIN@aol.com > thanks. > I had the same problem...since I was running on another machine: 1) Build a kernel was root device wd1 2) ran fbsdboot with the option "compiled in rdev" (-r?) and booted from dos >From experience, I saw it worked better on wd0 (I had slices on wd0 and wd1... Before, with the boot loader I could boot from wd(1,a)/kernel, I changed things, reinstalled and now I can't... Hint:::: I've found Linux much easier to get running on a wide variety of machines than freebsd.... I'm using about 10 machines in different configurations...I'm running freebsd on about 3 of them...with linix I have a strategy which always works even on multiple hard disks (loadlin kernel with a dos based kernel). Also, utilties like ps and the like can get important information from /proc/ksyms...this works much better than having to specify the kernel, especially when you boot from dos... -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom