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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:11:59 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
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On 2002-11-21 05:08, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>
> The next thing you can try is to boot off a FreeBSD CD-ROM and
> interrupt the loader as it starts to show the spinning character.

I'm sorry.  I failed to mention *how*.
When the spinner starts, just press SPACE.

> Instead of letting it boot from 0:fd(0,a)/kernel which is IIRC the
> default kernel that the boot CD-ROM starts, press backspace to delete
> 0:fd(0,a)/kernel and write:
>
> 	0:ad(0,a)/kernel
>
> That should boot from the disk.


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