From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 7:39:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF0837B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 07:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ncsmtp02.ogw.rr.com (ncsmtp02.ogw.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B9A43E6A for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 07:39:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6 [24.93.67.53]) by ncsmtp02.ogw.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g8TEdbup028715; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:39:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.162.238.30]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:39:18 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 78392BA16; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:38:34 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Jimmy Lantz , Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim Subject: Re: Booting from a CD-ROM Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:38:34 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020929152206.00bcc0e8@mail.lusidor.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020929152206.00bcc0e8@mail.lusidor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209291038.34234.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Or just boot off disk 2 of the distribution which is a "live filesystem" rescue CD. Then run boot0cfg to re-install the bootloader. On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:22 am, Jimmy Lantz wrote: | Check out liveCD | livecd.sourceforge.net. | / Hth | | At 18:26 2002-09-29 +0800, you wrote: | >Hello all, | > | > I can't search the archives for a solution. I thought I give this | > list a try. | > | > WinXP screwed me last night and I'm forced to reinstall it. I | > totally forgot | > that I already have a FreeBSD installation on it and realized | > only after I | > installed it that I would not be able to boot if off because | > WinXP MBR had already | > overridden it with its own. I don't have floppy on this system, | > only CD-ROM. | > | > I notice there's an option "boot: " I assume, for selecting | > kernel after booting | > off from a FreeBSD CD. How do I make use of the option? Do I | > need to include | > the specific disk and slice. I have 3 disks da0, da1 and ad0 | > according to BIOS | > ordering. FreeBSD stays in da1 and the kernel resides at | > /kernels/kernel-new. I | > read from the handbook that boot2 stage spawns off loader | > or boot3 stage | > depending on the parameters. Also it explains up until unload | > and set kernel, | > if possible I want to use loader because I've done a few | > customizations in | > loader.conf which I don't know how to make it out without using a | > loader. | > | > Thanks in advance. | > | >-- | >Thank you for your time, | >Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim | > | >__________________________________________________ | >Do You Yahoo!? | >Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free | >http://sbc.yahoo.com | > | >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message