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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!134.222.90.2!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!sn.no!usenet From: "Geir A. Bjune" <gbjune@sn.no> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD 2.2.2 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 19:37:49 +0200 Organization: SN Internett Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33CFA9ED.67D@sn.no> References: <33CE6671.568C@sn.no> <33CF6FC4.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: kongsberg2-11.ppp.sn.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44623 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Geir A. Bjune wrote: >> Install went ok, booted from SCSI-CD-ROM and started adding packages and >> everything seemed fine. I installed everything on wd2, using another >> bootmanager (OS/2) to boot FreeBSD. > Hmmm. Do you also have a SCSI hard drive in this machine? No, but a SCSI ZIP-drive and CD-ROM. I checked. The problem was that I only had one disk on each EIDE-controller, and when booting it thought it should boot on drive 81h, not 82 as would have been wd2. Might be bootloader, might be BIOS, might be FreeBSD > In any case, try booting with: 2:wd(1,a)/kernel at the ``boot:'' prompt > and see how that effects things. I moved the harddisk to Primary Slave and things started working. Thanks anyway :) Geir -- \\\|/// Geir Bjune - Student ved IFD,HiBu \\ ~ ~ // http://home.sn.no/home/gbjune ( @ @ ) Women love cats. Men say they love cats, o00o_(_)_o00o but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.