From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 04:20:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D748316A41F for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:20:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd@aanet.com.au) Received: from aanet.com.au (mail.aanet.com.au [202.63.35.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D18F843D53 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:20:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd@aanet.com.au) Received: (qmail 19581 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2005 04:20:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (202.164.206.178) by mail.aanet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Dec 2005 04:20:44 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.1.371 [267.14.4/211]); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:20:43 +1100 Message-ID: <43AB7B1B.8040207@aanet.com.au> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:20:43 +1100 From: rajoor User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <43AB6C90.7050108@aanet.com.au> <20051223034527.GA1816@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051223034527.GA1816@flame.pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:20:51 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2005-12-23 14:18, Ariane & Ron Joordens wrote: > > >>Afternoon All, >> >>My FreeBSD 6.0 computer refuses to boot. It gets to the screen where it >>pauses for 10 seconds and gives you the choice of 8 boot options, and >>then...nothing! >> >>Choosing the default option shows a single line "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko >>text= etc,..." then the next line shows "|", and that's it. All the >>other boot options show just the "|" and that's it. I have waited for up >>to 30 minutes, but no change. The only way out is to reset the computer. >> >>Prior to this prblem the computer worked perfectly. FreeBSD 5.4 was >>installed about 4 months ago, this was upgraded to 6.0 about 2 months >>ago. Everything had been recompiled and I never had any problems, until >>this. >> >>I suspect that my 2 year old son has been pressing the power button >>repeatedly which may have caused this. >> >> > >Do you still have the FreeBSD install CD-ROM? You can use that to boot. > >DON'T INSTALL ANYTHING, though :) > >Just make sure that the CD-ROM boots fine up to the sysinstall menu. > >If that works, then there's definitely something wrong with the kernel >or the other boot files you have on disk, and we'll see what can be >done. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > Thanks Giorgos, The install cd boots just fine. So I then looked up the manual and tried to boot from /boot/kernel.old.kernel but that doesn't work either. What can we do next? Ron -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.4/211 - Release Date: 22/12/2005