Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:21:52 -0600 (CST) From: Jack Winslade <jsw@cywub.sitel.net> To: admin@Gccomm.Net (Jeff Ehrenkrantz) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot -c in 3.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <199903012221.WAA24531@cywub.sitel.com> In-Reply-To: <005801be63d9$feadab00$3142f5cf@whyy.org> from "Jeff Ehrenkrantz" at Mar 1, 99 06:52:32 am
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> I recently Installed 3.1 Release on a drive having the old boot blocks. > Thus it is necessary for me to do a "boot -c" to tweak an Ethernet isa > address. Although the system does work after this tweak. The change does > not get stored. This system is a minimum hard drive/system install so I > don't have the space to compile a custom kernel at this point. Can someone > tell me why the changes don't get saved? & any chance I can binary edit the > Generic Kernel to take care of my prob. Or is there some other solution > available > Regards.... ..je I've wondered about this too, ditto with the -s option. I talked somebody through an installation in Detroit last week, and was amazed when these did not work. I set up an identical system here and verified that I cannot get into -c mode no matter how hard I try. Workaround was to have the user do a custom kernel using a copy of the GENERIC that I modified and sent via e-mail. This works but was a major pain. Is there a trick we don't know, for the -c option, or is this a bug, or even a removed feature ?? Good day JSW To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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