From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 21:26:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6937114D7B for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA29382; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:26:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903300526.AAA29382@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: fixit floppy In-Reply-To: <37002E62.3ECAC3E4@gulftel.com> from bob olbrich at "Mar 29, 99 07:52:34 pm" To: rjob@gulftel.com (bob olbrich) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:26:10 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bob olbrich wrote, > Hello, > > I'm still having troubles trying to get FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE > to boot. I've used the FTP method to install. I can see the > bin distribution downloading and DEBUG output shows it > successful. When the system reboots, F2 in the booteasy > does not work. > I was wondering if the fixit floppy may be useful. I've never > used it. Can I get a list of commands for it? Does it have a way > to check the filesystem? Can I boot from it? I used the kern.flp and > mfsroot.flp. Do these obsolete the boot.flp? I do not believe so. The boot.flp and fixit.flp are typically used together. For your problem, the first step would be to try to boot off of the boot.flp, but then use the kernel off of your new installation. Assuming that your drive you mentioned is a IDE drive on the first controller, you would type at the boot prompt, 1:wd(0,1,a) ^ Where the '1' pointed at might vary depending on which slice you put FreeBSD on (I assume you do have some MSDOS-style partitions?). If that does not work, you might want to give the fixit floppy a try. Again, you'd need to start with the boot floppy. See the documentation on the website about the fixit floppy. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message