Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:46:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <Jeffrey_M._Metcalf@ccMail.bms.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Strange problem with default boot device Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331024534.397J-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3336D473.2229@ccMail.bms.com>
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > Hello, > > Since my upgrade to FreeBSD-2.1.5, I have been getting a weird problem > at boot time. Under 2.1.5, whenever I boot the installation floppy, > I get the following line: > > [43:]fd(43,a)/kernel > > as the default boot device. Since there is no fd(43), I get a > spontaneous reboot and am forced to type fd(0) each time to boot the > floppy successfully. This strange disease has infected booting from my > wd(0) device as well. Whenever I try to boot from wd(0), I get the > same line as above: > > [43:]fd(43,a)/kernel > > Here, of course, I am forced to type wd(0) at the boot prompt to avoid > a spontaneous reboot. Odd. You probably need to reinstall your bootblocks; check out the disklabel(8) man page and the -B option. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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