From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 14 15:25:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25702 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:25:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smarter.than.nu (lal-99-91.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.99.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25696 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:25:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smarter.than.nu (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06664; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:25:09 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: Peter Johnson cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Recovering from a ELF kernel moveover that didn't work!! In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981114171514.00a154f0@popmail.mcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message