From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 19:19: 2 2002 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 1407837B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:19:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from andromeda.68k.org (callisto.teisoft.com [12.109.66.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A7243E8A for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ayn@AndrewNg.com) Received: from localhost (ayn@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by andromeda.68k.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6Woody) with ESMTP id gAL3IxIF017770 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:18:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:18:59 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Y Ng X-X-Sender: ayn@andromeda.68k.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives In-Reply-To: <20021121030856.GB8009@gothmog.gr> Message-ID: Organization: ANDREWNG.COM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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