From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 13:59:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9605C16A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:59:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from engraver.valleygate.net (12-240-1-161.client.mchsi.com [12.240.1.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128EC43D58 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:59:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wizlayer@gmail.com) Received: from wizard.valleygate.net (wizard.valleygate.net [10.51.10.3]) j2VDxBH8039575; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:59:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wizlayer@gmail.com) From: wizlayer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:59:09 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050331133658.GA29880@donnex.net> In-Reply-To: <20050331133658.GA29880@donnex.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503310859.10035.wizlayer@gmail.com> cc: Daniel Johansson Subject: Re: Disable loader.conf when booting? Can't boot because of it .. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: wizlayer@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:59:22 -0000 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