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From: eck@ti.com (Terry Eck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Need Help Booting System Just Installed.
Date: 4 Nov 1996 21:09:01 GMT
Organization: Texas Inc., Dallas, Texas
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <55lm1d$r1s@sf18.dseg.ti.com>
Reply-To: eck@ti.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: sc10.dseg.ti.com
Hello,
I'm completely new to FreeBSD. I currently run linux and OS/2. Over the
weekend I installed the base part of FreeBSD (v2.2) onto the 3rd partition
of a scsi drive. I also have 2 IDE drives. I think I should be able to
use the floppy install boot disk to boot my system off the SCSI partition.
The problem is I do not understand the notation for drives and paritions.
When the boot disk first prompts it gives hints as to what to enter. In order
to install I had to enter -c to run the setup program before install, my
aha1542 scsi controller is set at 0x130 for the base_io. Can anyone tell me
what to put on the boot prompt line inorder to boot from the 3rd partiton
of a scsi drive, or can you point to where I can find this information.
Terry...
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Terry Eck eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com (214)575-6196
Texas Instruments P.O. Box 869305 MS 8456 Plano TX 75086
"Unix is a user friendly OS... it's just choosy about its friends"