Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:51:01 -0800 From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter.Fogg@worldnet.att.net Subject: Re: Wrong boot default Message-ID: <3670B2C5.668D8BA7@seattleu.edu> References: <366EA3D9.9707BF68@worldnet.att.net> <367016A6.C802E47D@seattleu.edu> <3670ABA2.D8D31AAF@worldnet.att.net>
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I don't have the experience to help you from here on, so I'll send this back to the list (please CC me next time.) Peter Fogg wrote: > > Eric Hodel wrote: > > > > You can create a /boot.config file with "1:wd(2,a)kernel" in it to boot up > > properly, but I don't know if that will save your changes. > > > > Eric Hodel > > hodeleri@seattleu.edu > > > > Thanks for the help, Eric. There is good news and bad news! The good > news is that entering "1:wd(2,a)kernel" in the "/boot.config" file > worked fine! The bad news is that when I ran UserConfig and disabled the > devices I didn't want, things things don't work any more!! When I exited > and saved from UserConfig, there was considerable writing to some hard > disk. However, the subsequent boot process died a couple lines after the > "boot:" line. I tried booting with the "-c" option involked and not > involked, same result! The only option seems to be a hard reboot of the > computer. I fear that the installation has been damaged and I'll have to > reinstall everything, any thoughts? > > Peter - -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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