Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:17:30 -0500 From: "Steven T. Schowiak" <schow@dhc.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Install OK, cannot mount root - UGH! Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980716081730.007a0530@dhc.net>
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I think my FreeBSD installation went well. I installed it to a bootable 600M partition on my third hard drive and instruct the mother board to boot from this drive instead of C:. The other 625M is a DOS partiton accessable by Windows 98. The entire drive is still FAT16. Boot Easy comes up and I choose BSD. It goes through the gyrations and them wants to re-boot itself. A search through the archives says that I should use '1:wd(2,a)/kernel' . I try this and it returns 'bad disklabel' and 'can't find wd(2,a)/kernal'. I've been screwing around with this for several weeks now and I'm getting ready to give up. BTW during the installation, I removed all the conflicting devices (they were all devices I didn't have anyway) accept for the mouse and system console. Figured I needed those. After the fdisk partioning the disk was named 'wd2' and the partition was named 'wd2s1'. I was also wondering if the book from Walnut Creek would be of help. Waddya think? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Remove 'NO-SPAM' from my address before replying via e-mail. This - - protects me from sleazy spammers and their automated spam-bots. - - ********** - - Visit my web page at http://www.dhc.net/~schow featuring: - - The BRIEFCASE BLUES, a tribute to the Blues Brothers! - - HUMBLE PIE, classic rock's finest! - - My personal PHOTO GALLERY, featuring my award winning photos! - - WHY? TELECOMMUNICATIONS, a local DFW ISP that provided CRAPPY - - internet service and RIPPED OFF it's innocent customers! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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