From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 25 13:28:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EA71536B for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 13:28:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id FAA27996; Wed, 26 May 1999 05:28:14 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <374B0709.DDD21E45@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 05:24:41 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot process References: <199905251905.VAA29541@greenpeace.grondar.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Murray wrote: > > If I play around (Hit F5 or space or enter), I get "Invalid partition" > errors. Hitting enter at that stage gets me a Boot: prompt. The only > thing that gets an actial boot is typing 0:da(1,a)/boot/loader. Then > both disks are visible and fine. Both disks have had fdisk -b and > disklabel -B done to them. What happens if you press F1? And on the help message of the second stage prompt, what does it claims to be the default? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message