Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:25:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error on Boot : "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0" Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960925202447.647G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609250435.AA002426146@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > > When booting off of /dev/wd1, the boot process stops right after the first > > > prompt, and scrolls this error repeatedly up the screen. If I enter > > > "wd(1,a)kernel" at the first prompt, the machine boots perfectly. > > > > Somehow the boot loader can't find the disk or the kernel. What is the > > slice layout on that disk? It may be out of range. > > Assuming that the error message in the subject is accurate, the > loader's trying to load the very first sector on the disk (the initial > boot sector with the fdisk/slice info). Unfortunately, it seems to be > failing (and the code keeps on trying and trying, which is why the error > message appears again and again). I don't know why it's doing this, > unless the disk is bad (which seems unlikely, as it's possible to boot > from wd(1,a)kernel -- maybe the wrong disk is being used?). Perhaps. What's your machine's disk configuration? I've known computers which have many disks spread between SCSI and IDE can confuse biosboot. 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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