Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:56:58 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: blackthorne@utah-inter.net, des@flood.ping.uio.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: In need of help. Stuck at "Boot:" Message-ID: <199902120156.RAA08923@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:29:08 EST." <199902120129.UAA12564@lakes.dignus.com>
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> If I understand his question correctly, he's made his own CDROM and > would like to install from it. But, when he boots from the HD, he > just gets the Boot: prompt... after an appropriate amount of time, > nothing happens. > > Seems like that would be a good question for hackers.. Why doesn't > something happen? He's installed the old boot1/boot2 but has built an ELF kernel. He should be able to boot the loader manually to get up, then install the new bootblocks. Basically, you need to be able to diagnose things like this yourself if you're going to try to make your own releases. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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