From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 19 18:16:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1527D37BD45 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p51-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.116]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id LAA18265; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:16:40 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38AF3C80.6E4F5267@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:59:44 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason J. Horton" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems booting kernel from large drive References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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