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Subject: /kernel.DEFAULT won't boot on a newly installed 3.4 BSD system
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>Number:         16047
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       /kernel.DEFAULT won't boot on a newly installed 3.4 BSD system
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 10 16:10:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Wed Jan 19 05:01:11 PST 2000
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jan 19 05:02:38 PST 2000
>Originator:     Shawn Wilson
>Release:        3.4
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>Description:
i installed my FreeBSD 3.4 system after about 3 attempts (most of the problem of the first attempts was that i was filling up the / drive). so, when i finally get it installed, i reset my computer, and the boot process starts, and identifies the drives as A, B, C, D, E and than says a couple of more things (i don't remember exactly what). and then, it says something like Default: 0:wd(1,e)/kernel (which i take to mean the first device, partition 1, slice e). so i put, 2:wd(1,e)/kernel (i have 3 wd drives, and one cdrom on the first device as slave). and it still says something like can't find kernel.
i booted with the fixit boot disk and mounted the drive (/dev/wd2s1e) and made sure that kernel was there (both /kernel and kernel.DEFAULT are there, and they are the same - verified by diff).
if it is any relevance, i specified bsd to use my whole disk (the option that doesn't allow for any other operating systems - not exactly sure what it is called).

any help would be appreciated.

thanks
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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To: swilson@tfn.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/16047: /kernel.DEFAULT won't boot on a newly installed 3.4 BSD system
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:22:49 +0200

 On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:06:19PM -0800, swilson@tfn.net wrote:
 > 
 > i installed my FreeBSD 3.4 system after about 3 attempts (most of the
 > problem of the first attempts was that i was filling up the / drive).
 > so, when i finally get it installed, i reset my computer, and the boot
 > process starts, and identifies the drives as A, B, C, D, E and than
 > says a couple of more things (i don't remember exactly what). and then,
 > it says something like Default: 0:wd(1,e)/kernel (which i take to mean
 > the first device, partition 1, slice e).
 > 
 Does mean: first BIOS drive, second wd drive, partition E (in BSD terms).
 See the boot(8) manpage for details.
 
 > so i put, 2:wd(1,e)/kernel (i have 3 wd drives, and one cdrom on the
 > first device as slave). and it still says something like can't find
 > kernel.
 > i booted with the fixit boot disk and mounted the drive (/dev/wd2s1e)
 > and made sure that kernel was there (both /kernel and kernel.DEFAULT
 > are there, and they are the same - verified by diff).
 > if it is any relevance, i specified bsd to use my whole disk (the
 > option that doesn't allow for any other operating systems - not
 > exactly sure what it is called).
 > 
 > any help would be appreciated.
 > 
 To boot from the secondary IDE master, you should use 2:wd(2,e)/kernel.
 
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 19 05:01:11 PST 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Originator is advised to read the boot(8) manpage. 
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