Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:09:17 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't boot Message-ID: <371317CD.475C2FC7@newsguy.com> References: <199904130813.KAA21994@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>
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Thomas Schuerger wrote: > > I have Win95 and FreeBSD 4.0-Current on my system. What version of FreeBSD you originally had in your system? > Today I had to reinstall Win95, which overwrites the master boot record. > After that I used fdisk to switch to FreeBSD and used /stand/sysinstall > to install the FreeBSD selector boot record (I set the FreeBSD and the > Win95 partition to bootable first). This /stand/sysinstall is the one on the hard drive, correct? I assume you never, ever, did cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall; make all install, correct? Thus, this sysinstall corresponds to the originally installed FreeBSD version. One needs the latest loader to boot current -current kernels. I don't recall the exact dates for the latest loader, but the specific patch that is needed was committed sometime in march, I think. > Now the boot selector will be displayed, but I cannot run FreeBSD from > it anymore. It will just show the boot prompt in the boot loader and > won't accept to boot from my SCSI drive, where the FreeBSD and Win95 > partition are located (using "0:da(0,a)kernel", which should work). 0:da(0,a)kernel will certainly not work for loader, only boot2. Is loader being loaded at all? If not, you *definitely* don't have a latest version installed. In this case, try "0:da(0,a)/boot/loader". If that proceeds to boot your kernel correctly, do a "disklabel -B da0", and everything will be back to normal. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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