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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!bouyer From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.0 Boot Hang.... Date: 28 Nov 1994 16:36:15 GMT Organization: Techniques Avancees, Paris Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3bd0tv$bj9@ici-paris.ensta.fr> References: <3bct3b$oe0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsdtest.ensta.fr In article <3bct3b$oe0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, bstrawse@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Bryan Strawser) writes: > > NetBSD & BIOS report disk geometry as 980/10/17/512. I enter this, > and install kernel onto wd0a. No problems. When I boot from the hard > drive, I get the NetBSD boot prompt, i enter wd(0,a)/netbsd, and it > hangs. Try hd(0,a)/netbsd. NetBSD loader's uses the bios to load the kernel, so it doesn't know about wd or sd, it just knows hd(0,?) and hd(1,?). -- -- Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris email: bouyer@ensta.fr --