From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 13:20:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3CE1506D for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11962; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:17:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Lane Holcombe Cc: support@cdrom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: How to boot freebsd? In-Reply-To: <001701be88dd$e822d760$4b384ec7@lholcombe> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message