From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 19:10:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA04698 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA04676 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA08354; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:08:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Matthew Stein cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error on Boot : "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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