Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:00:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD bootup problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970227105955.9506J-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970227021858.438w-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > You said your boot floppy works to start your hard-disk copy of FreeBSD, > > right? Boot FreeBSD using it, then run the command. > > Nope, I never tried it that way yet but the boot disks are for > FreeBSD installation so I can never hit the shell or is there a way to do > it with the floppy? Yes. You can enter a partition to boot from the Boot: prompt. So if your disk is on IDE disk 0 (wd0), you can enter wd(0,a)/kernel To start your disk. Or sd(0,a)/kernel for SCSI disks. If you can start that way, then it's not your kernel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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