From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 15 17:43:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AE4115202 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 17:43:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicrecords.com) Received: (qmail 2684 invoked by uid 65534); 16 May 1999 00:43:47 -0000 Date: 16 May 1999 00:43:47 -0000 Message-ID: <19990516004347.2683.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> From: Dave Walton To: Ilia Chipitsine Reply-To: Dave Walton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: IMP/PHP3 Imap webMail Program 1.99 beta Subject: Re: can't find /boot/loader Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Ilia Chipitsine : > On 12 May 1999, Dave Walton wrote: > > > Quoting Ilia Chipitsine : > > > > > Does it help to ... > > > echo "1:wd(2,a)kernel" > /boot.config > > > > Hmmm... /boot.config doesn't exist. During the boot process, I see: > > changing root device to wd0s1a > > Would that mean that I need "0:wd(0,a)kernel" instead? > sure, you can try any configuration, do not forget to stop > when you'll get it finally working :-)) That didn't do anything. The default is wd(0,a) anyway, which is the right place to boot from. What could cause /boot/loader to not be found? > > > > Anyway, boot(8) says that /boot.config is used to bypass the third stage > of the > anyway, boot(8) is very, very old, boot process has been changed > and that man page is out to date, have a look at the source tree... I'll do that, though I'm not sure where to look or what to look for... Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message