From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 10 21:52:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19102 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:52:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA19096 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.25.95]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA06754; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:52:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3670B2C5.668D8BA7@seattleu.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:51:01 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" CC: Peter.Fogg@worldnet.att.net Subject: Re: Wrong boot default References: <366EA3D9.9707BF68@worldnet.att.net> <367016A6.C802E47D@seattleu.edu> <3670ABA2.D8D31AAF@worldnet.att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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