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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: problems with bootup
Date: 7 May 1996 20:49:42 GMT
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wayne tamagi <wtamagi@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:

> >> FreeBsd Boot...Use hd(1,a)...
> 
> |
> that's it and can't see my hard drive running.  

p.s.: Can you boot the system by entering ``sd(0,a)/kernel'' (or
``wd(0,a)/kernel'' if it's not a SCSI disk) from a boot floppy?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)