Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:59:44 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems booting kernel from large drive Message-ID: <38AF3C80.6E4F5267@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002191240200.46956-100000@kaon.intercom.com>
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"Jason J. Horton" wrote: > > 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 It's very common the case were it's not possible (due to BIOS) to boot past 8 Gb. > 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 Why are you booting the kernel from the second stage rather than the third? > 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 /? Read the loader.conf(5) man page instead. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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