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Subject: Re: Booting up FreeBSD 2.1.6
To: cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk (Chow Chi-Ming)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:38:22 -0600 (CST)
Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199701310605.OAA05714@cuse77.se.cuhk.edu.hk> from Chow Chi-Ming at "Jan 31, 97 02:05:56 pm"
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In a previous message, Chow Chi-Ming said:
> 
> I tried it last night with no luck!  I used the installation floppy
> and typed "wd(3,a)/kernel" at the boot prompt and the screen was
> filled quickly with messages:
> 	...
> 	Error: D:0x83 C:0 H:1 S:1
> 	Error: D:0x83 C:0 H:1 S:1
> 	...
> 
> Just to recap my setup: 486-120 PCI 16M RAM with 3 HDDs
> 	IDE1-1  win95
> 	IDE2-1  Linux
> 	IDE2-2  FreeBSD
> Installed via the novice route and chose to intall a boot manager in
> one of the screens.  No extra packages were installed as I wanted to
> get a minimal system up quickly.

Hmm. This sorta looks like wd3, but did you try it as wd2? What does
Linux think it's disk is?


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