At 8:35 PM -0600 11/24/00, jeff wrote:
>I was using a bad floppy (I tried about 4 til one finally worked).  Then
>I noticed that when I booted, it prompted for a root device.  I entered
>'wd0' just like I had been doing before the install.
>
>Then it dawned on me:  is that supposed to be 'wd0a' instead of wd0?
>Could that be the cause of my errors?

I think there is a boot floppy image out there where the kernel on it 
is a standard one instead of an install image.  In that case it would 
look for /etc/fstab, not find it, and ask for a root device (which 
should be something like /dev/md0 for an install kernel).

If you are using a good boot floppy then it should already know where 
its root device is and ask you to Install, Halt, or exit to shell 
(not in that order).

OTOH if you are talking about when you boot after installing then you 
probably need to do some more installing, perhaps including creating 
a correct /etc/fstab file (which should have been done by sysinst). 
What you say about using wd0a for the device is likely correct (I use 
SCSI Mac's myself).

Good luck.


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