Bug 16047

Summary:	/kernel.DEFAULT won't boot on a newly installed 3.4 BSD system
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	swilson <swilson>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description swilson 2000-01-11 00:10:00 UTC

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

Comment 1 Ruslan Ermilov 2000-01-11 11:22:49 UTC

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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Comment 2 ru freebsd_committer

2000-01-19 13:01:11 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Originator is advised to read the boot(8) manpage.