From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 22:50:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01065 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:50:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01058 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:50:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA28556; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:50:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Bruce Albrecht cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing boot.cfg, boot.help In-Reply-To: <199804091330.IAA00406@zuhause.mn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > I just moved all my file systems around, and moved my freebsd root > partition to a freebsd-only drive (i.e., no partitions, just a > disklabeled drive). When I boot, it complains that boot.cfg and > boot.help are missing, and I have to hit a return to get it to boot. > My original root didn't have these files, but I never got such an > error. These are parts of the new boot blocks built for 2.2.5. /boot.help is a file displayed before the boot: prompt, and /boot.config is a file that lists the default disk to boot from (i.e., "wd(0,a)/kernel"). Both files are optional. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message