From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 10:21:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150CF37B729 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:21:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E32153FC; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:21:13 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Rick Duvall , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Block help! Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:21:13 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032809211302.02971@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 28 March 2001 08:49, Rick Duvall wrote: > I am trying to write boot blocks to an ISO image to burn to a cd with > mkisofs. From what I have found, I should use the boot.flp and > boot.catalog files. However, when i boot from the CD, it takes me to the > install. I don't want that. I want it to just take me to a shell prompt > in single user mode so that i can run my restore routines to restore my > system. > > Any help with this is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Sincerely, > > Rick Duvall > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Boot from the CD...when you get to the boot prompt type: boot -s The machine will boot into single user mode and give you a shell. Hope this helps, Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Network Manager - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message