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From: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
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Subject: Re: Recovering from clobbered boot manager?
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> On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > >> 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.

I tried a lot of guesses and looked for documentation but haven't been
able to figure out the right magic incantation to boot my 4.4-RELEASE
system like this after interrupting the boot.  My / is on da0s2a.


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