From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 01:51:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA00814 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 01:51:15 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA00792 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 01:51:06 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA27256; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:23:11 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id KAA15153; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:23:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA08138; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:10:40 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503190910.KAA08138@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Boot crash. To: Gieger@aol.com Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:10:39 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <950318121449_53401019@aol.com> from "Gieger@aol.com" at Mar 18, 95 12:14:51 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 736 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gieger@aol.com wrote: > > ... It reboots & comes up with the BSD boot screen along with the "Boot:" > prompt. If I hit return, type '?', type '/kernal-c' > or anything it locks up. Normally there is a little twirling "|" symbol > but it just prints "|" and locks solid. My bios geometry matches BSD, I did > write the boot code. Looks like nothing from your root file system is being found. Either of the above commands is trying to read something from there (`?' attempts to read the directory, and the other commands want to read the kernel file). What's the geometry you are using? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)