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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 10:17:11 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        "Greg Quinlan" <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@usa3.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Who broke the boot loader (3.2-S)? 
Message-ID:  <199905280917.KAA02156@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 May 1999 09:44:36 BST." <03c801bea8e6$51224f20$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk> 

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> After a 'cvsup supfile' and a 'make world'
> 
> I see we have a new boot loader .... not Revision 0.5 Revision now 0.7, now
> it does not work!!
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 ......
> (jkh@usa3.freebsd.org .........)
> 
> disk1s2a:>  boot
> You have already loaded 'boot' .....
> disk1s2a:> boot kernel
> (same thing!)
> disk1s2a:> boot kernel.prev
> (same thing!!)
> 
> Which means I CAN NOT BOOT!!!!!!!!!   ):(
> 
> What is going on? .... this is 3.2-S!

You're probably now using /boot/defaults/loader.conf.  You can 
override things in /boot/loader.conf, or manually:

disk1s2a:> unload
disk1s2a:> load kernel.prev
disk1s2a:> boot

> Greg

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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