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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't boot after successful install
Date: 14 Jul 1996 12:48:19 GMT
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Tim Writer <Tim.Writer@ftlsol.com> wrote:

> I have two IDE disks and a SCSI disk with FreeBSD installed on the
> SCSI disk.  I try to boot hd(2,a)/kernel (via the boot prompt from the
> boot floppy) but all I get is:

hd(2,a) doesn't work.

Well, after looking at your device configuration, it looks like you've
got an all-SCSI machine?  If so, the pseudo-device `hd' wasn't for you
anyway.  It's as simple as using ``sd(0,a)/kernel'' then.

For more weird cases (combinations of wd and sd disks other than wd0 +
sd0 [...+ sdN]), updating the bootblocks to the most recent version is
probably the best option.

-- 
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. ;-)