Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:11:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> Cc: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Recovering from clobbered boot manager? Message-ID: <20011019200745.K3471-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> In-Reply-To: <200110192315.f9JNFRM17500@gits.dyndns.org>
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Ah, right, I tried to figure out what to do there to try to boot from my hard drive partition, but I couldn't figure it out. For my own personal use I can see I'll have to learn how to do that right, but might I suggest that in the interest of making FBSD more user friendly that the syntax or at least the help be improved? On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > Lamont Granquist wrote: > [snip] > > Okay, the difficulty though is that I had clobbered my boot manager with a > > Win2K install (dual-booting) and the CDROM doesn't give you the boot0cfg > > command. I had to install onto a 2nd hard drive and then boot into that > > no, but the CDROM has the kern.flp floopy which should be sufficient. > as nearly you can, interrupt the boot process using <space> then > you should get the following prompt : > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader > boot: > > you just have to enter : > > 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader > > if that don't work, let's try : > > 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > > which should work in any case. > > Cyrille. > -- > Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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