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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: booting FreeBsd from 2nd IDE
Date: 2 Dec 1995 08:44:59 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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Message-ID: <49p3mb$qhc@times.tfs.com>
References: <30BFF84F.6EDC@airmail.net>
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In article <30BFF84F.6EDC@airmail.net>, Dan Baritchi <dan@airmail.net> wrote:
:
:- However, when I reboot the system, I get the option to:
: boot: F1: dos or F5: disk2
: I choose F5: disk2 , and when I go to disk 2, I get the option F1:
:FreeBSD
: I choose F1: FreeBSD, and get the regular FreeBsd boot prompt
: But, no matter what I type at that prompt, the system halts...
:nothing happens
: I tried hd(1,a)/kernel , wd(1,a)/kernel .. nothing seems to work
:
:I have also tried installing the root partition on my SCSI, and the
:/usr and swap space on the second IDE, so I could boot off my SCSI,
:but that didn't work either.
:
boot off the floppy and post the results the following commands:
dmesg
fdisk wd0
fdisk wd1
dfisk sd0
disklabel wd0
disklabel wd1
disklable sd0
we'll see from that what the problem is..
ALSO
write down what your BIOS says about the drives and
anythig written in the drive documentation
or on stickers on the side of the drive.
given all that we should be able to tell you what to type
to make it boot....
julian
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