From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 29 08:25:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04533 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04517 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id KAA08058; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:24:48 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id KAA08054; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:24:42 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <006c01be4ba3$f37bec90$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Mike Zanker" Cc: "FreeBSD-Stable" Subject: Re: Help! Cannot boot system Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:25:09 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It should not have boot you into sysinstall. It should have loaded your kernel called generic off of your primary master (assuming IDE). This is what you mentioned in you original email. You can have my elf kernel from yesterday if you want. That should cover most PC options, at least to get you in to compile a new kernel. I called it generic for you case, it isn't really. More slimmed down. ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/veldy/kernel.generic. It should be there by the time you get this emai. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: Mike Zanker To: stable Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 8:14 PM Subject: Re: Help! Cannot boot system >At 18:43 28/01/99 , Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > >>Place your 3.0-RELEASE boot floppy in and boot: >> >> 0:wd(0,a)/generic >> >>Should do it for you. > >Thanks, it did - however, I've now realised that this does little more than >boot me into the installation program. > >I think the easiest way for me to get back in would be for some kind person >to make a recent 3.0-STABLE generic ELF kernel that they have compiled >available to me. Is there anybody who can place such a kernel somewhere I >can ftp it from? > >I would be very grateful! > >Thanks, > >Mike >-- >Mike Zanker, Academic Computing Service, The Open University, UK >Tel: +44 1908 652726, Fax: +44 1908 652193 > >Views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect University opinion. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message