From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 20 20: 0:48 2001 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 E705737B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p06-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.71]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id NAA19955; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:00:41 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A933CC2.33032273@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:57:54 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edwin Culp Cc: Current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What goes at the boot prompt References: <3A9306AC.36AF1BE@EnContacto.net> <3A93084B.3FACCCA5@EnContacto.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Edwin Culp wrote: > > > I have a kernel that hangs at boot, so when I try to boot kernel.old, I > > have a problem. At the Default: F1 prompt, I give it an F1 and then the > > space key give me > > > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > > Default: 0:wd(o,a)/boot/loader > > boot: _ > > > > What do I put at the boot prompt. I think the changes of the last few > > days have left me a little punchy. I thought that I always put > > kernel.old or /boot/kernel.old. On -current, /boot/kernel.old is a directory containing both kernel and modules. /boot/kernel.old/kernel would do, but why skip the loader phase? Let loader proceed, interrupt the ten second count and then type: boot kernel.old (or boot-conf kernel.old, if you are using loader to get some modules loaded) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.fashionable.bsdconspiracy.net "Too bad sentience isn't a marketable commodity." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message