From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 21:00:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19081 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 21:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (vince@venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA19071 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 21:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.8.5/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA02717; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 21:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 21:00:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor Bootup problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Does anyone know what I can do to fix the following? I had tried > > reinstalling bootinst.exe from dos and recompiled a new kernel. The > > problem seems to be the FreeBSD Boot manager on one of the machines only > > when it asks to hit the Fx key for FreeBSD, it would say boot.help not > > found and boot.config not found. Then when it loads the kernel, it would > > say kernel.config not found. Any ideas? Thanks! > > boot.help and boot.config are two new files that come with the new boot > blocks on 2.2-STABLE, 2.2.5-RELEASE, and later. You can grab > ftp://gdi.uoregon.edu/pub/boot/boot.help and copy it to /boot.help to shut > up the first message. For the second, create the file /boot.config and put > the boot string for your machine, or try leaving it blank. kernel.config > I've never heard of and it doesn't exist on my 2.2.5 machine. If it isn't > a showstopper you can probably ignore it. It seems like with the 2.2.5-RELEASE boot disk, it didn't do the boot.help or boot.config. Is the boot string the same as the first line in /etc/motd? kernel.config pops up missing right after the bootstrap and before the FreeBSD Inc. copyright but the machine boots fine. Just couldn't figure out what that file is. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]