Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:08:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Matthew Stein <matt@bdd.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error on Boot : "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0" Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960924190743.7937D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924155431.13768A-100000@bdd.net>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Matthew Stein wrote: > I've installed FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP on a machine which previously ran > FreeBSD without error. Now that I've reinstalled, and changed the boot > drive, I'm at a loss. > > When booting off of /dev/wd1, the boot process stops right after the first > prompt, and scrolls this error repeatedly up the screen. If I enter > "wd(1,a)kernel" at the first prompt, the machine boots perfectly. Somehow the boot loader can't find the disk or the kernel. What is the slice layout on that disk? It may be out of range. Normally, if you said that was a floppy, I'd say to use a new, freshly formatted floppy, but that's not easy with a hard disk :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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