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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!usenet From: Mark Taylor <mtaylor@cybernet.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 boot problem... Date: 4 Nov 1993 15:47:05 GMT Organization: Cybernet Systems Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2bb85p$stg@nigel.msen.com> References: <2b8mtd$5uo@nigel.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.245.33.12 X-UserAgent: Version 1.1.3 X-XXDate: Thu, 4 Nov 93 10:47:30 GMT Allright, To clear things up a bit: I HAVE followed the instructions on installing FreeBSD. I made the floppies, ran 'em once to prepare the hard disk, ran 'em again to install a kernel on the hard disk (via "copy"), and now I cannot get it to boot from the hard drive (a SCSI disk connected to a correctly terminated Adaptec 1542B controller). HOWEVER- In conversing with Adam David, we found that I could boot up the floppy disk to the first prompt (where it asks you what you want to boot from). Normally you boot from fd(0,a)/386bsd. When I specify hd(0,a)/386bsd, it works FINE. It even finished the installation by installing the CPOI floppy. I'm FTPing the rest of the binarydist right now. In other words, I am currently required to boot from the floppy disk and specify hd(0,a)/386bsd as the boot kernel. Why won't it boot from the hard disk? I've got the CMOS set so that there are no disk drives, and I have the IDE controller disabled as well. -Mark J. Taylor mtaylor@cybernet.com