Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:52:32 -0600 (CST) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: jia@cs.depaul.edu (Xiaoping Jia) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation problem Message-ID: <9503161552.AA06777@olympus> In-Reply-To: <199503160040.QAA03527@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Xiaoping Jia" at Mar 15, 95 06:40:32 pm
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> Installed the boot manager. When boots I first choose F5 to disk 2 then > choose F2 to boot FreeBSD. I got the initial boot message, similar to > those when boot from boot floppy. When prompt with > > boot: > > I type > > hd(1,a)/kernel > > Then it shows > > | > > and stuck. > > I read carefully the troubleshooting part. No help. I really appreciate > your help. Regards. > > Unless, Disk1 is IDE and Disk2 is SCSI, use wd(1,a)/kernel if they are IDE or sd(1,a)/kernel if they are SCSI. Congrats on the boot manager. I only got that to work but not labelling the second disk at all but then your don't get the boot: prompt. Good Luck. Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________
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