From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 14:13:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772E214C29 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:13:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (pix.gdl.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.253]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA41013; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:12:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <00c001bf48db$f9a15200$d2630a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> Cc: References: <000d01bf48e2$8d360640$a39ac5d1@webserver> Subject: RE: cant boot Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:13:41 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Duke, Yes, you can boot with the install floppies, and then use the fixit floppy (fixit.flp) to have a shell (there is an option in the sysinstall menu to use the fixit floppy), then munt your / partition in /mnt, and change the file "/etc/rc.conf" as you need. P.S. I may suggest to always copy to the list, because there are a lot of people with better ways of doing things, and also a lot of people that are learning from others questions. Greetings Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Alejandro Ramirez Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 4:59 PM Subject: Re: cant boot > From: Alejandro Ramirez > To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 9:31 AM > > | Ok, lets try something, first of all I have checked the right > way of > |doing it, the syntaxes of the line its "set root_disk_unit=2" > without the > |quotes, then write "boot". > | > | And for using a boot floppy to boot the system, you will have to > try the > |following (because I cant test it right now), first create the > 3.3Release > |kern.flp boot floppy ( "c:\fdimage -v kern.flp a:" ), then boot your > FBSD > |server (like always), and mount the disk in it "mount /dev/fd0 > /floppy" then > |"cd /floppy/boot", and edit the loader.rc file "vi loader.rc", and > try just > |this two lines in your file: > | > |set root_disk_unit=2 > |autoboot 5 > | > |Then, just unmount your disk and try it, it should work (I have > never done > |it), you can play around this if this doesnt work. > > > Thanks for your kind reply! I haven't tried your suggestions yet, > because I shot my foot off in rc.conf last night. I added to rc.conf: > > allscreens_flag="VGA_80x30 <--- but I left out the trailing " > > So when i booted earlier today, I got a coding error message and a > prompt to either type in the full path of the shell or ENTER for > /bin/sh. Only problem is, the fs is read-only. I can't even change > permissions on rc.conf to correct the error. Is there anything that I > can do, short of re-installing? Many thanks for taking the time to > help this newbie!! > > later....duke > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message