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From: Philip Burden <phil.burden@zetnet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Error on Boot : "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0"
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 14:27:48 +0100
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Message-ID: <1996100414274866749@zetnet.co.uk>
References: <52oj41$3jg@thunder.mgl.ca> <532ukq$t8e@itchy.serv.net>
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In message <532ukq$t8e@itchy.serv.net>
zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) writes:
> In article <52oj41$3jg@thunder.mgl.ca>, Matthew Stein <matt@bdd.net> wrote:
> >I've installed FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP on a machine which previously ran
> >FreeBSD without error. Now that I've reinstalled, and changed the boot
> >drive, I'm at a loss.
> >
> >When booting off of /dev/wd1, the boot process stops right after the first
> >prompt, and scrolls this error repeatedly up the screen. If I enter
> >"wd(1,a)kernel" at the first prompt, the machine boots perfectly.
> >
> Sounds like a bad floppy to me.
it's similar to my own setup, FBSD is installed on my second drive, a
SCSI one, and has to be booted thusly sd(0,a)kernel, just hitting
return doen't do it, though I think it tells you that ;-)
P.
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