Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:47:10 -0400 From: "Andrei Frunza" <frunzales@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 bootloader error Message-ID: <f11370bf0804130647n65a88a05rad6b0b3426774781@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4801FC8B.90407@gmail.com> References: <4801FC8B.90407@gmail.com>
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Nevermind, my problem was related to my src.conf file - I've enabled the WITHOUT_FORTH option without really knowing what am I doing. Basically this option disables some bootloader features that are needed in order to actually show up the boot menu, kernel output blah blah. On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Andrei F. <frunzales@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. I've installed FreeBSD 7.0 on one of my machines and I also went > through the buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld procedures. > Whenever my machine gets restarted the FreeBSD bootloader doesn't start > correctly, meaning that graphically the boot options don't show up screen > anymore. This happened only after I 'make installworld' and rebooted my > machine. As you can see, the kernel messages are not displayed either. From > the bootloader section I'm jumping directly to my login prompt. It seems > that some file(s) in the /boot directory has been modified and it's not > interpreted correctly anymore. One last thing that I have to mention: I did > not touch any file in /boot. > > BTX loader 1.0 BTX version is 1.01 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > Bios drive C: is disk0 > Bios 639kB/1039104kB available memory > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (andrei@fbsd.lan, Sun Apr 13 00:04:39 EDT 2008) > > \ > \: unknown command > - > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x2d6c34 data=0x2e180+0x280dc > syms=[0x4+0x3a390+0x4+0x4bdcf] > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... > \ > FreeBSD/i386 (fbsd.lan) (ttyv0) > > login: > >
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