From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 19 9:42:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kaon.intercom.com (kaon.intercom.com [198.143.3.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B36537BC10 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 09:42:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@intercom.com) Received: from [198.143.3.26] (helo=intercom.com) by kaon.intercom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12MDtz-000COU-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:42:44 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:42:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason J. Horton" X-Sender: mail@kaon.intercom.com To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: problems booting kernel from large drive Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a -STABLE system with a 27gig IBM EIDE, and when I set up the system, I only made 2 partitions, / and swapspace. The system has been working just fine, till I did a "make world" and installed a new kernel. Now when I boot, I get errors like this: >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: Disk error 0x1 (lba=0xc21e2f) Invalid format I am assuming I am getting this because I made the drive "dangerously dedicated". Is there any way to install my new kernel in such a way that it is loadable? Also, if I want to specify an alternate kernel to boot from on startup, would I make an entry like this in /boot/loader.conf: boot /kernel.old;/kernel.different The loader(8) manpage is kinda vague. Or is there a way to make a bootable floppy that just has a kernel, and have it use the IDE drive as /? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message