Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:17:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Lane Holcombe <lholcombe@ddyne.com> Cc: support@cdrom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: How to boot freebsd? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201316410.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <001701be88dd$e822d760$4b384ec7@lholcombe>
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On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Lane Holcombe wrote:
> I have just completed installation of freeBSD 3.1 from cdrom, but i
> cannot seem to convince my computer that freeBSD exists on the
> harddrive. Please help.
>
> I have one Seagate 34520A on controller zero which has a FAT,
> EXTENDED, and FREEBSD partition. I believe that the freeBSD partition
> is named wd0s3, because I can actually MOUNT that partition when using
> cdrom2 as a 'live file system'.
> When the system first starts up, I get the "boot:" prompt. I type in
> "0:wd(x,a)? [where x is any number from 0 to 9]" and I get the error
^ That should be another ", right?
> "not ufs." I have also replaced the 'a" with values up to and
> including "f"
Try doing ? and see what you get.
What's your disk layout?
Doug White
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