Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:38:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk (Chow Chi-Ming) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting up FreeBSD 2.1.6 Message-ID: <199701311338.HAA00532@horton.iaces.com> 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? -- When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.
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