From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 04:54:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCB716A41F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:54:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elimited@lycos.com) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing2.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF97843D45 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:54:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elimited@lycos.com) Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.9.180]) by webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP id 762B618001A0 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:54:23 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (208.36.123.32) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 18 Jan 2006 04:54:23 -0000 Received: by ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7ECF63384B; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:54:23 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "J oberweith" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:54:23 +0000 Received: from [69.179.59.174] by ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com with http for elimited@lycos.com; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:54:23 +0000 X-Originating-Ip: 69.179.59.174 X-Originating-Server: ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20060118045423.7ECF63384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Subject: boot process failure (/boot.config, boot2, loader) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:54:24 -0000 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