Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:43:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: rivers@dignus.com, blackthorne@utah-inter.net, des@flood.ping.uio.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: In need of help. Stuck at "Boot:" Message-ID: <199902122343.QAA26155@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199902120156.RAA08923@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Feb 11, 99 05:56:58 pm
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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. One of the magic things that Julian and Doug Ambrisko did here when we upgraded a lot of machines to 3.0, was to *not* install the new boot blocks. Instead, there's a little a.out program (named "kernel") that is loaded instead of the real kernel that then loads the real kernel. I don't know the status of this code. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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