From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 2:56:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from enigma.whacky.net (enigma.whacky.net [194.109.204.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E5737B40B for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 02:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by enigma.whacky.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f8R9v2641784 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:57:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stephanb) Received: (from stephanb@localhost) by enigma.whacky.net (8.11.6/8.11.3av) id f8R9uxe41769 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:56:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stephanb) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:56:59 +0200 From: Stephan van Beerschoten To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: bootdisk and still boot from disk ? Message-ID: <20010927115658.B40113@enigma.whacky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I feel such a newbie again after 4 years of extensive FreeBSD usage, but I never have been in a situation before where I needed to do this: I wonder what setting I have to change in the FreeBSD bootloader prompt to use the kernel which resides on the floppy to boot my actual system. I tried setting the rootdevice to something that should be my disk, but it doesn't seem to work. This is a faily basic question so I hope no additional information is needed about my environment. Thanks for your time ;) -Stephan -- Stephan van Beerschoten [SVB21-RIPE] stephanb@whacky.net PGP fingerprint: 4557 9761 B212 FB4C 778D 3529 C42A 2D27 "To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message