Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:59:09 -0500 From: wizlayer <wizlayer@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Daniel Johansson <donnex@donnex.net> Subject: Re: Disable loader.conf when booting? Can't boot because of it .. Message-ID: <200503310859.10035.wizlayer@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050331133658.GA29880@donnex.net> References: <20050331133658.GA29880@donnex.net>
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On Thursday 31 March 2005 08:36 am, Daniel Johansson wrote: > Hi, I really need some help here. I'm running a raid0, with > vinum, and read the errata about adding geom_vinum_load="YES" > to loader.conf because vinim_start="YES" in rc.conf paniced my > system when booting. I'm running 5.3-RELEASE and the errata > mentioned that one too. > > So I added gvinum to loader.conf and now I can't boot. All I > get is a lot of scrolling text that says something about gvinum > error, can't remember the exact message but it can't boot > anyway. Tried single mode to delete this line but can't boot > into single mode either. Tried disable-module geom_vinum in the > loader but that didn't help either. It loaded the module > anyway. > > So I'm really desperate here .. is there any way to tell my > system to completly ignore loader.conf when booting so that I > at least can access the system and edit loader.conf? > > Please CC to me if you reply. I'm not sure if you can disable loader.conf during boot (would be a cool thing to know, though). The only thing I know to do is boot from a live filesystem or from the install floppies and ttyv2(?) to get a shell. You can then mount your slices/partitions and comment the vinum_start line out. HTH, WizLayer
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