Roelof Osinga wrote:
>
> "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> >
> > mount wd0a /mnt? Is it too much typing for you?
>
> And then they tell *me* to stop being sarcastic! HAH! Since when, pray
> tell, does root reside below mnt?
/me sighs
mount wd0a /mnt
mount /mnt/dev/wd... /...
chroot /mnt
> > You mea
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
>
> mount wd0a /mnt? Is it too much typing for you?
And then they tell *me* to stop being sarcastic! HAH! Since when, pray
tell, does root reside below mnt?
> You mean two _slices_, one on the first 1024, and the other at the
> end of the disk containing the usual _par
Roelof Osinga wrote:
>
> > 1) boot the installation disks until sysinstall comes up.
> > 2) select the Fixit option (the one that mentiones a shell, y'know)
> > on the main menu.
>
> Alas, won't work. Root is most definitely not the root on the hard
> disk. You can do thing within the fixit envi
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
>
> M how about:
>
> 1) boot the installation disks until sysinstall comes up.
> 2) select the Fixit option (the one that mentiones a shell, y'know)
> on the main menu.
Alas, won't work. Root is most definitely not the root on the hard
disk. You can do thing wi
Roelof Osinga wrote:
>
> > > - the install disks could be used to access ones root disk
> >
> > They can.
>
> So people keep telling me. I spend over a week on it an I tell you
> they can't. Not in any sensible way, that is. Compared to this, say,
> Linux is pure bliss. You pop in the disk enter
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 11:57:26AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > Rootdev ought to work, actually. But if you get it wrong, the loader
> > > will fall back to using currdev.
> >
> > Hmm then thats strange. I first tried rootdev, which didn't work, and
> > then later currdev, which did work, an
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > partition, and I was unable to boot FreeBSD. What I did: wipe out FreeBSD
> > > partition; use Partition Magic 4.0 to move the Win98 partition to the end
> > > of the disk; reinstall FreeBSD in the newly empty 3 GB partition at the
> > > front of
> You misremember; it has to be on the first disk, but it can be in any
> primary partition there.
doh. thanks. game over.
randy
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> > partition, and I was unable to boot FreeBSD. What I did: wipe out FreeBSD
> > partition; use Partition Magic 4.0 to move the Win98 partition to the end
> > of the disk; reinstall FreeBSD in the newly empty 3 GB partition at the
> > front of the disk. Now both FreeBSD and Win98 boot OK.
>
At 07:28 AM 11/5/1999 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> i did flash a new bios, and it did install up there at 10-13g. it just
> >> won't boot.
> > I had a similar problem, on a newish Dell PC (less than a year old) with a
> > 16 GB drive. I had a 13 GB Win98 partition followed by a 3 GB FreeBSD
> >
>> i did flash a new bios, and it did install up there at 10-13g. it just
>> won't boot.
> I had a similar problem, on a newish Dell PC (less than a year old) with a
> 16 GB drive. I had a 13 GB Win98 partition followed by a 3 GB FreeBSD
> partition, and I was unable to boot FreeBSD. What I d
At 10:48 PM 11/4/1999 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> >>> - Boot the install floppy.
> >> i presume you mean the kern.flp floppy.
> >>> When the little spinning widget appears
> >>> and stops, hit the spacebar. At the 'boot:" prompt, type
> >>> wd(0,a)/boot/loader
> >> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x
> >>> - Boot the install floppy.
> >> i presume you mean the kern.flp floppy.
> >>> When the little spinning widget appears
> >>> and stops, hit the spacebar. At the 'boot:" prompt, type
> >>> wd(0,a)/boot/loader
> >> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c)
> >> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b
>>> - Boot the install floppy.
>> i presume you mean the kern.flp floppy.
>>> When the little spinning widget appears
>>> and stops, hit the spacebar. At the 'boot:" prompt, type
>>> wd(0,a)/boot/loader
>> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c)
>> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c)
>> No
> > - Boot the install floppy.
>
> i presume you mean the kern.flp floppy.
>
> > When the little spinning widget appears
> > and stops, hit the spacebar. At the 'boot:" prompt, type
> > wd(0,a)/boot/loader
>
> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c)
> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c)
>
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