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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need Help Booting System Just Installed.
Date: 5 Nov 1996 17:49:37 -0000
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In article <55lm1d$r1s@sf18.dseg.ti.com>,
eck@ti.com (Terry Eck) writes:
: 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.
You're out of luck here unless you've got a BIOS that can see your
FreeBSD root partition. Assuming you have, type
2:sd(0,a)/kernel
This says to read BIOS drive 2 and to pass "scsi disk 0 slice a" to the
kernel that's found on the first FreeBSD partition on that drive.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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