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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsreader.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4saqaj$eh@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <m3wx07kz6p.fsf@snoopy.ftlsol.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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. ;-)