many thanks also to Brian Stark and Manuel Bouyer who helped. Now it
begins booting and seems to be going along fine until it gets to here:

(** means kernel output)

**root file system type: ffs
Fri Oct  4 19:44:05 GMT 2002
**UVM: pid 10 (sh), uid 0 killed: out of swap
Killed
**UVM: pid 13 (sh), uid 0 killed: out of swap
Killed
Starting File system checks:
**UVM: pid 15 (sh), uid 0 killed: out of swap
Killed
Unknown error:help!
**UVM: pid 14 (sh), uid 0 killed: out of swap
Killed
**UVM: pid 6 (sh), uid 0 killed: out of swap
**UVM: pid 16 (sh), uid 0 killed: out of swap
Oct  4 19:44:37 init:/bin/sh on /etc/rc terminiated abnormally, going
to single user mode

And then it hangs.  This is a ten finger copy, so please
excuse my fumble fingers. Any ideas?

TIA,

-Carrie

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 10:06:23PM -0600, Carrie Jones wrote:
>
> > I can get to everything after I mount it, but am not able to boot it. I
> > have included the disklabel I ran on it and the fdisk. It looked fine to
> > me, but maybe I'm missing something?
>
> from the floppy try hd1a instead of wd1a.  the "hd" devices are the BIOS
> numbers.
>
> my odd random guess is that the partition isn't set active, and so the
> BIOS doesn't want to load it.
>
> --
>   Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofygoof.com
>     "i'm convinced that the cray cabinet has an outlet for plugging in
>     welding attachments."  --  Skeezics Boondoggle, on the cray CS6400
>