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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: boot string??
Date: 6 Jun 1997 14:53:57 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <sinkr.865602547@tempermental>,
buzzardw@tempermental.cbl.umces.edu (Bryce Buzzard) writes:
> 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???
man 8 nextboot
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !