Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:54:23 +0000 From: "J oberweith" <elimited@lycos.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot process failure (/boot.config, boot2, loader) Message-ID: <20060118045423.7ECF63384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com>
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Booting problem... I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 on my little Pentium III box. My problem start= ed when I was trying to have it boot ACPI enabled by default (now, of cours= e, I know about the loader.conf control file). Anyway, I read another post stating that all I needed to do was put the boo= t option into /boot.config, so I make a /boot.config file with the number 2= in it (for the second boot option which has ACPI enabled) and reboot. Now during boot it stops in (apparently) boot2 with: Free BSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)2 boot: If I type "?" to see what commands may be allowed I get: ?. .. .snap dev tmp usr var home etc cdrom dist bin boot lib libexec mnt pr= oc rescue root sbin sys .cshrc .profile COPYRIGHT compat entropy boot.config No matter which of these commands I type it just puts it in place of the "2= " above: enter: root comes back with: Default: 0:ad(0,a)root So I have apparently broke the boot process with my "2" in /boot.config, bu= t according to the manual I should be able to find files on my system, etc = (maybe even delete /boot.config for example). But no matter what I type in for a command it just eats it making a new "De= fault:" line.=20 Any ideas on how to use the boot2 system to find/edit/remove the /boot.conf= ig file? Or maybe to just tell the boot2 process to ignore /boot.config? Thanks! Garrett --=20 _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pa= ges http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as= p?SRC=3Dlycos10
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