Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:24:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <jeffrey_m._metcalf@ccmail.bms.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, metcalf@snet.net Subject: Re: How does the 'boot' command know the default boot device? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970225112221.5297L-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <9701258568.AA856893185@ccgate0.bms.com>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > I was wondering how the 'boot' command which begins the FreeBSD > bootstrap procedure knows what the default boot device is? I believe it assumes it's the disk it's on, ieif the booter is on wd0 it assumes there is some slice on wd0 that contains FreeBSD. > I > currently have the problem that whenever I try to boot my > FreeBSD 2.1.5 system, the default boot device is set to 'fd(43)', > which does not exist. This causes a spontaneous reboot of the > computer and forces me to have to type the following to the boot > prompt every time I want to start FreeBSD Sounds like the booter is broke. I wish I knew how to fix it, it involves twidding with disklabel which I'm not familiar with. You need to reinstall it, though. 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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