From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 19 02:47:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1233) id 4A55310656AB; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:47:26 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:47:26 +0000 From: Alexander Best To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110219024726.GA3909@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:47:26 -0000 hi there, is it still possible to boot a kernel directly from stage 1 and 2 and thus bypass loader(8)? this is my disk layout: => 34 488394988 ada0 GPT (233G) [CORRUPT] 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 16777216 2 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 16777378 471617644 3 freebsd-ufs (225G) => 34 1953525101 ada1 GPT (932G) 34 20971520 1 freebsd-swap (10G) 20971554 4194304 2 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 25165858 1928359277 3 freebsd-ufs (920G) my /boot.conf contains: 0:ad(0p3)/boot/kernel/kernel but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says: btx halted or something like that. but i can give you the exact message if you need it. cheers. alex -- a13x