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hmmm - looks like I need to lead the loader by the nose :

OK> set hw.syscons.disable=1
OK> set currdev=hd:11
OK> unload
OK> boot /boot/kernel/kernel -s

gets a single user shell

[off to see if he can get multi user to work...]

regards

Mark

Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> Yep - looks good for booting now!
>
> - in fact a little too good :
>
> 'boot -s' seems to just do 'boot'.
>