From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 23 22:51:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15991 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 22:51:14 -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 WAA15972 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 22:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA09254; Sat, 23 May 1998 22:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 22:51:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John Derk cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't Boot BSD v2.2.1 In-Reply-To: <35633CAB.2A5C5E8A@infomatch.com> 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 Wed, 20 May 1998, John Derk wrote: > Hi. I'm a unix and bsd newbie. My system had been working fine until > recently, when I tried viewing my kernel file with "ed." It looks like > I accidentally changed something. Now, when I boot up, everything goes > normally until the appearance of the boot prompt. Then the system > ceases to recognize the usual inputs (e.g., hitting enter). The Boot: prompt is actually stored in your hard drive's boot block, so you can't easily damage that unless you go editing /dev/rsd0 or something like that. Are you getting some kind of error? > Have also tried entering "kernel.old" at the boot prompt--but to no > avail. You may have to type `/kernel.old'. 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