Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:42:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: problems booting kernel from large drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002191240200.46956-100000@kaon.intercom.com>
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I have a -STABLE system with a 27gig IBM EIDE, and when I set up the system, I only made 2 partitions, / and swapspace. The system has been working just fine, till I did a "make world" and installed a new kernel. Now when I boot, I get errors like this: >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: Disk error 0x1 (lba=0xc21e2f) Invalid format I am assuming I am getting this because I made the drive "dangerously dedicated". Is there any way to install my new kernel in such a way that it is loadable? Also, if I want to specify an alternate kernel to boot from on startup, would I make an entry like this in /boot/loader.conf: boot /kernel.old;/kernel.different The loader(8) manpage is kinda vague. Or is there a way to make a bootable floppy that just has a kernel, and have it use the IDE drive as /? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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