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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!144.212.100.12!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: Newbie: installing and booting Date: 19 Jan 1997 22:38:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5bu7ou$fa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32E214A3.2F2A@mc.hik.se> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34267 Bengt =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5str=F6m?= <mia96asb@mc.hik.se> wrote: > When I try to boot from my boot-floppy I write: Use 1:wd(0,a)kernel > Then I get the message: "dosdev = 81, biosdrive = 1, unit = 0, maj = 0 > Invalid format!" > I have tried several combinations of "one and zero and two" in the "Use > 1:wd(0,a)kernel" line. dosdev=81 is ok, its my second HD, but the > rest of the message? (Btw., you've got a very weird news software. Ah, Netcr^H^H^H^H^HMozilla. They should have learnt by now that HTML is something for WWW, not for Usenet.) Well, ``1:wd(0,a)'' would only be correct if your first disk were SCSI, but the second (BIOS) disk were IDE. I assume this is not the case. If your first disk is also IDE, you need one of those: wd(1,a)/kernel # wd1 is 2nd BIOS drive, and slave on 1st controller or 1:wd(2,a)/kernel # 2nd BIOS drive, but master on 2nd controller -- 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. ;-)