From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 13 16:31:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA29275 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:31:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA29253 Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:31:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:21:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Mike Williams cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd1 install - boot problems In-Reply-To: <821396320.19188.0@smartpt.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Mike Williams wrote: > I've just bought the FreeBSD CD and a second EIDE hard drive for my > PC. I've installed the drive (off the same controller as the primary) > and it's recognised by fdisk. I booted bsd from a floppy and did an > install to the new (slave) drive - wd1 (I believe). OK, common enough... > I booted from floppy again and at the boot prompt told it to use wd1 > (had to specify /kernel.GENERIC as it couldn't find /kernel). Wow did > I see some errors. Some Debug ones (came up and went too fast) and > superblock something or another. I get a prompt but can't do anything. Hm. The superblock reference tells me something went wrong with the install. You might try deleting the partition and trying again. Did you try `ls' at the boot prompt to see what kernels are available? Did you boot with `wd(1,a)/kernel' ? > I suspect that the problem may be that bsd thinks the root partition > is on wd0. No, it wouldn't boot at all then (unless you accidentally tweaked your wd0). > How can I tell it it isn't or re-install so as it uses wd1 > (that's if this is the problem). Try ls. > Please help. Where can I get the doco on building a new kernel (in > Mickey Mouse language)? Is all this doco on the CD? I can't read the > faqs into windows notepad. Looks like there are no line feeds in the > text. It's in the handbook, BUT you have to have a working system to do it. > Will I always be faced with having to boot from floppy if bsd is on > the second disk? Yes, unless you get a boot manager like OS-BS. > Am I stupid or is this hard? Many thanks for you time. It's hard. Doug White | Student, University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Major: Computer Science http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Eugene/Spfld BBS List Publisher