From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 24 5:32:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com [24.39.27.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE2237B401 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 05:32:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9OCW1Y96617; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 07:32:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 07:32:01 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Matt Lazarou Subject: Re: regarding freebsd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Oct-2001 Matt Lazarou wrote: > Hi There, > > I had my FreeBSD box running for 26 days when i got home from work today > the system was frozen so i killed the x server and it wouldn't let me > relogin in. Now when i restarted my computer... and tryed booting back > into FreeBSD i got the message: > FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:ad0(0,a),a > Boot: > > Also the message invaild partition however the core os of the system is > installed on ad1 my secondary drive. Any clue what i should type to fix > the problem i tryed: > ad1(1,a)/kernel > nothing any help would be apperciated. > > Thank you You have to also indicate the BIOS drive number. If ad1 is drive 1 in your BIOS (numbering starts at zero, of course), then: 1:ad1(1,a)/kernel *should* work (unless the root partition has gotten totally trashed somehow). -- Conrad Sabatier Fresco's Discovery: If you knew what you were doing you'd probably be bored. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message