Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:11:25 From: wood@nestor.engr.utk.edu (dylan wood) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: kernel won't boot Message-ID: <9603220309.AA26178@nestor.engr.utk.edu>
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I am having problems getting the kernel to boot directly from the FreeBsd partition. I recently had a hard drive crash. I decided to reinstall everything. First I made a DOS primary partition, and then I used fips to make a second partition for FreeBsd. However, freeBsd will nolonger boot-up from the boot manager. The only way I can get it to run is by using fbsdboot.exe. If I use fbsdboot, everything works fine. When I try to boot directly after powering-up, though, I get the prompt for options and which kernel to use, but as soon as it goes on it will immediately lock up ( with the cursor in the "|" position). The only hardware difference between now and before all of this is that I installed a new hard drive controller. Other than that everything is the same. As I said before, It will work if I start up dos first, so I don't have any reason to beleive that this is the problem anyway. I have tried putting all of the standard kernels (installation(s) and GENERIC) in /kernel, but the result is allways the same. I also recompiled the GENERIC kernel, and installed it. I haven't tried reconfiguring the Makefile yet, simply because I really don't have any idea where to go from here. If you would please give me some hints, or tell me what else you would need to know in order to help, I would appreciate it greatly. Thank You, Dylan Wood wood@engr.utk.edu
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