Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:18:59 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211202217220.17320-100000@andromeda.68k.org> In-Reply-To: <20021121030856.GB8009@gothmog.gr>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > What happens if you do press F1? Just a beep? yeah, it doesn't do anything... > 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. > > 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. right that worked, I can boot it that way, I tried the boot0cfg command you gave me to write a new boot0 block to the disk, tried to reboot and I still got stuck at the F1 prompt... /ayn -- andrew y ng <ayn@andrewng.com> http://andrewng.com fingerprint : 46a1 29ff 893a 0381 dc81 1e1e bed8 e882 9bfc 594c To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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