Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:26:39 -0500 From: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> To: "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot Loader Broken? Message-ID: <8d23ec860801100826p7e80dbd9j6f854c2b76fcf8ed@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44bq7taemf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <8d23ec860801091038i4878b8b1lbfbacbd8a4dbac73@mail.gmail.com> <44bq7taemf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Jan 10, 2008 10:23 AM, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> writes: > > > I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some > > problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of. > > > > Now I'm having another very odd problem. > > > > I originally noticed something odd when I tried to shutdown from > > multiuser mode into single user mode. I ran "shutdown now" as root in > > multiuser. It said it was shutting down, etc. But then, it gave me the > > normal multiuser login prompt. So then I tried rebooting completely, > > and that's where the big error came up: > > Note that rebooting completely *is* the normal procedure, so that you > know your kernel boots before you overwrite anything that depends on it. > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > > (root@Mercury, Tue Jan 8 14:22:21 EST 2008) > >> \ > > \: unknown command > > - > > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x29e868 data=0x2db8c+0x23814 > > syms=[0x4+0x34c10+0x4+0x43ef1] > > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for a command prompt. > > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 4 seconds ... > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > Why it trying to run the command "\" ? Right before I did this, I > > rebuilt world, including the kernel. I installed the new kernel, and > > was moving down to single user to install world. > > > > Is my bootloader corrupt somehow? > > I would suspect something more like some extra text in loader.conf. > My /etc/loader.rc: ------------------------------- \ Loader.rc \ $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/i386/loader/loader.rc,v 1.4.2.1 2005/10/30 14:37:02 scottl Exp $ \ \ Includes additional commands include /boot/loader.4th \ Reads and processes loader.conf variables start \ Tests for password -- executes autoboot first if a password was defined check-password \ Load in the boot menu include /boot/beastie.4th \ Start the boot menu beastie-start ------------------------------- My /etc/loader.conf: ------------------------------- # --- Generated by sysinstall --- hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 -------------------------------
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