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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!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: 16 Jul 1996 11:41:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4sfv4i$meq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <m3wx07kz6p.fsf@snoopy.ftlsol.com> <4saqaj$eh@uriah.heep.sax.de> <m3raqcq0pu.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: > > 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. > > Did I forget to mention that I have two IDE drives? In this case, > 'sd(0,a)/kernel' doesn't work. Yes, you did forget. > What do you mean by, "the most recent versions?" Those from 2.2-SNAPs after April 7. Those from FreeBSD 2.1.5. They allow for an arbitrary mapping between BIOS disk IDs and FreeBSD devices. I think you can say then: 2:sd(0,a)/kernel in your case. (2 is the BIOS ID of your disk.) Simply try booting your system from one of the newer boot floppies to see whether it will work. -- 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. ;-)