Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:25:09 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Peter Johnson <locke@mcs.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Recovering from a ELF kernel moveover that didn't work!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811141522440.6244-100000@smarter.than.nu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981114171514.00a154f0@popmail.mcs.net>
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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Peter Johnson wrote:
> Then I did the following: "disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 da0a"
> (da0a is my / slice).
>
> Now my system just reboots when I try to boot FreeBSD..
Your system is like mine (and those of several others), which doesn't like
the new bootblocks. Boot from a FreeBSD floppy and do
"0:wd(0,a)/boot/loader" and the boot prompt, then "disklabel -B da0a" as
root to reinstall the old boot blocks. You can put "/boot/loader" in
boot.config to use the new bootloader until the new bootblocks are fixed.
--
Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu
brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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