Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:11:32 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD bootup problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970227110938.438H-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970227105955.9506J-100000@localhost>
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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: > > Nope, I never tried it that way yet but the boot disks are for > > FreeBSD installation so I can never hit the shell or is there a way to do > > it with the floppy? > > Yes. You can enter a partition to boot from the Boot: prompt. So if your > disk is on IDE disk 0 (wd0), you can enter > > wd(0,a)/kernel > > To start your disk. Or sd(0,a)/kernel for SCSI disks. > > If you can start that way, then it's not your kernel. I know how that is done but I forgot that it will boot up correctly since I remembered it will always boot up the root partition from the boot prompt's disk instead but this shouldn't matter as it's just a disklabel thing. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
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