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From: buzzardw@tempermental.cbl.umces.edu (Bryce Buzzard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: boot string??
Date: 6 Jun 97 13:09:07 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Lab.
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Message-ID: <sinkr.865602547@tempermental>
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Keywords: boot
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I have 3.0-970124-SNAP on a P5/166 with 2 IDE hard drives. The boot drive is
420MB and the other is a 1.2 Gig. The system is installed fine and runs OK
except when it comes to booting. I want it to reboot and go straight into
FreeBSD, but that is where I am having problems. It gets to the "Boot:" prompt
OK, and tries to start the kernel, and that's where I get the following error
message over and over:
Boot:
dosdev = 81, biosdrive = 1, unit = 1, maj = 0
Bad bad sector table
Can't find /kernel
And then it goes back to the "Boot:" prompt and repeats this message forever. I
can, however, type in the following by hand:
Boot:wd(0,a)/kernel
And it will say:
dosdev = 80, biosdrive = 0, unit = 0, maj = 0
And then it will finish booting up with no problem. How in the world can I
get it to boot automatically without me having to be at the machine to type
in that line???