Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:54:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: BeroLinux <BeroLinux@aol.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble booting FreeBSD for the first time Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419215257.8564P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <8e3ebe7c.353a134a@aol.com>
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, BeroLinux wrote: > I've just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 from an official FreeBSD CD. > Installation worked fine, but I can't boot it. > Every time I try booting into FreeBSD, it claims it cannot mount the root > filesystem, and resets the computer. > I've tried specifying the root partition manually (in several variations, such > as "3:sd(3,a)kernel -rrsd1a", "3:sd(3,a) kernel -rsd1a"), with the same > outcome. I have never seen the -r flag. > My system is an AMD K6, 64 MB RAM, 2 IDE disks + 3 SCSI disk, with FreeBSD > being on the second SCSI disk (sd1). Problem: Your BIOS can only see the first two IDE disks for the purposes of booting, thus you can't boot your SCSI disks. That or LILO doesn't like you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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