netbsd-help: Re: booting from a disk

Subject: Re: booting from a disk
To: Liddy Shriver <shriver@research.bell-labs.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/03/1998 22:59:51

On 1998年7月28日, Liddy Shriver wrote:
> > 
> > 	One quick point - if you still have a viable 'netbsd.old'
> > 	kernel in the root directory you can boot from it by pressing
> > 	SPACE during the boot blocks countdown, then type
> > 	'boot netbsd.old'.
> 
> Thanks for the tip; I didn't find this printed anywhere. Is it?
> 
	'man boot' :)
	Can you think of any other man pages that should contain
	references to this?
> My problem was that I was trying to mount the entire disk, not just "a".
> Since part of the disk was Windows NT, it wasn't happy.
> 
> But, I have another problem... now, when I try to open my SCSI disks,
> I get a message "`/dev/rsd0d': Device not configured". I cann't see
> a disklabel either (i.e., "disklabel -r sd0" gives me "disklabel: 
> /dev/rsd0d: Device not configured". I had been using the disks fine, but
> powered them down and reboots the machine to get them out of a funny
> state. Now, they aren't configured... how do I configure a SCSI disk?
> 
	They should be detected at boot time - does dmesg report any
	disks?
		David/absolute
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