From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 11 18:05:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26445 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:05:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles253.castles.com [208.214.165.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26435 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:05:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08923; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:56:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902120156.RAA08923@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Thomas David Rivers cc: blackthorne@utah-inter.net, des@flood.ping.uio.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: In need of help. Stuck at "Boot:" In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:29:08 EST." <199902120129.UAA12564@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:56:58 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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