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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:45:17 -0500
To: "Robin Stevens" <voltechs@gmail.com>
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At 10:18 AM -0800 11/8/07, Robin Stevens wrote:
>Alright guys. So I went home, and did as instructed, but now I'm
>getting an ofw error when I try to boot the loader.
>
>CLAIM failed.
>
>What the heck is this?
>
>I'm trying to boot with:
>
>boot hd:loader hd:3

Shouldn't that first parameter include a partition number?  (I realize
that what you typed in is exactly what was said in some earlier
message, but I'm not sure that was correct)

I do:

   boot hd:3,loader hd:5
           ^
           partition number, before the ",filename"

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu