From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 05:27:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA11591 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 05:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from joust.nombas.com (joust.nombas.com [204.213.45.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA11586 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 05:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from outland.nombas.com (outland.nombas.com [204.213.45.13]) by joust.nombas.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA25156 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 08:49:03 -0400 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960603122641.00683604@joust.nombas.com> X-Sender: rich@joust.nombas.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 08:26:41 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Richard Robinson Subject: Trouble installing FreeBSD release 2.1.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello. I have just got my hands on your FreeBSD 2.1 CD-ROM and tried to install it on my system. After some time, I finally got to the 'reboot now' stage. Upon rebooting, System Commander detected FreeBSD correctly (I later tried with the supplied Boot Manager, with the same behaivor so this is not the problem.) I had installed it on the first partition of my second hard drive. Both hard drives are IDE, and the BSD installation had called them 'wd0' and 'wd2'. I got to the boot: prompt, hit return and it loaded the kernel and detected my hardware. Then I got a Panic because changing root device to wd1a had failed. Well, of course, I don't have a wd1a. So I tried to use the boot prompt (which I still have been unable to find any documentation on) to boot from wd2a. I tried this, my best guess: wd(2,a)/kernel Unfortunately, all that caused is this error message to be repeated over and over again: Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 So, do you have any suggestions on how I can get this to boot my configuration? Any help would be greatly appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------ Richard Robinson rich@nombas.com "There is no right; there is only power..." ------------------------------------------------------