From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 23 16:40:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta-1.gci.net (mta-1.gci.net [208.138.130.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BFD37B424 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:40:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mandm@alaska.com) Received: from mmp-2.gci.net ([208.138.130.81]) by mta-1.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GC9R4002.LNA for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:40:48 -0800 Received: from windud ([24.237.148.5]) by mmp-2.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GC9R3Z00.J3U for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:40:48 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20010423154044.007de980@mail.gci.net> X-Sender: mandm@mail.gci.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:40:44 -0800 To: stable@FreeBSD.org From: "Michael A. Endsley" Subject: /boot/boot0 or boot1 bad? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did a binary upgrade from 3.5 to 4.3-RELEASE using floppies and ftp. The upgrade went fine, but I had a bad idea, and decided to upgrade my sources via cvsup. Here is my present situation/problem: When booting from HD, I use a boot manager (Win98, OS/2, FreeBSD), and go to FreeBSD. About 1 second after clicking FreeBSD, there appears a single line of about 14 characters of gibberish at the bottom left of my monitor. It doesn't lock-up the keyboard, but I can't get anything to happen either. The Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock keys all work. Anyway, I hit C-A-D, and reboot with the kern.flp disk. As soon as the "baton" shows, I hit the space bar and type "0:ad(0,a)kernel" and FreeBSD boots from the HD just fine. Everything is mounted, all programs run, I can log in as a normal user and root. Everything is there and looks/runs great. If I understand correctly, /boot/boot0 and /boot/boot1 are the first files "read". Did I damage one of those files or perhaps a different partition on my FreeBSD slice is being pointed to to boot? Can it be repaired? No, I don't have a back-up... no room to spare :( BTW- /etc/fstab and ls -l /dev |grep ad0 show the same devices (if that helps) TIA, Mike __________________________________________________________ I use: FreeBSD 4.2, L-M 7.2, OS/2 Warp3&4, Amiga 4000 ICQ #54186124 BP40MM May God bless you abundantly __________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message