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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