Date: 01 Oct 1998 03:22:28 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recycling boot prompt Message-ID: <m390j0ponv.fsf@chub.local> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:23:26 %2B0930" References: <m3yar0u69g.fsf@chub.local> <19981001173439.J2636@freebie.lemis.com> <m3lnn0r820.fsf@chub.local> <19981001192326.D24146@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: > On Thursday, 1 October 1998 at 1:38:15 -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: > > > >> On Wednesday, 30 September 1998 at 23:48:43 -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > >>> Installed and running, FreeBSD-2.2.7. At least for awhile.... > >>> After initial basic install. I went back and ftp installed some of the > >>> `packages' to get a more usefull installation. Very time consuming of > >>> course. I've put a line in Lilo.conf on a linux install (same disk) > >>> to boot BSD. It has worked a few times. > >>> > >>> After the ftp package install. On reboot, I get to lilo, select BSD > >>> then get a prompt that keeps trying to start booting but only returns > >>> to a `boot prompt' in a second or two. Cycles endlessly. I wasn't > >>> able to see how to enter in a diagnostic mode or something to try to > >>> see what might be wrong. > >>> > >>> Whats likely to be causing this. I tried just booting linux and > >>> rerunning `lilo' but got the same result. > >>> I hate to reinstall now because of the installed packages getting > >>> zapped. Takes too long to get them again. > >> > >> Agreed. Reinstallation isn't the way to go. > >> > >>> Trying to do something with the `fixit' floppy. Soon as this is posted. > >> > >> Don't need to use fixit. Boot floppy is enough. Try: > >> > >> boot: wd(0)kernel > >> > >> Assumes that FreeBSD installed on first IDE disk. If on second, > >> prompt is: > >> > >> boot: wd(1)kernel > >> > >> If SCSI disk, use sd instead of wd. > >> > >> If not working, let us know with description of messages. > > > > > > Thanks, wd(1)kernel was the one I needed. Inserting boot floppy and > > trying the above, I get the same exact behaviour. > > > > No messages are produced. If I try to type anything at the prompt, > > when I hit <RET> The screen scolls up and back to the prompt. If I let > > it time out, the install routine starts. > > This looks like you may have overwritten something important. Go into > sysinstall (the install program which the floppy starts) and thence > via the Index into the partition editor. See if you can find a > FreeBSD partition. If you can, go into the disk label editor and see > what partition names are mentioned. Not sure exactly what fixed it. Before getting your last post. I started the install routine and chose `upgrade' I was instructed to mount the partition I wanted upgraded. I mounted all. /, /var, /usr Allowed the bin package to be ostensibly, `upgraded'. Then exited. Booting with lilo now works again. And the packages I had painstakenly downloaded and installed survived the ordeal. Thanks for your advice -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com Running Redhat Linux-5.1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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