Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 08:48:26 -0700 From: Patrick Burm <patb@commlitho.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: boot loader suddenly appears Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000407084245.00ae4370@commlitho.com> In-Reply-To: <200004071521.LAA05538@server.baldwin.cx> References: <4.3.1.2.20000406165729.00ae02a0@commlitho.com>
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At 11:21 AM 4/7/00 -0400, you wrote: > > For some reason, today, after making some changes to rc.conf, > > powering down and moving the server, it decides to give me > > that boot manager that looks like this: > > > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > > Default: 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader > > boot: > > > > And then just sits there. I can hit enter and get it to boot, > > but it concerns me that a power outage (longer than my UPS can handle) > > will make the thing sit there waiting for someone to push enter. > > > > I have tried fdisk /mbr from a dos disk, I have tried using the > > fdisk from /stand/sysinstall and marking the partition active and > > telling it a standard MBR and writing. > > > > Nothing will make it go away. > > > > Any ideas. Or at least can I give that boot manager a directive to > > just boot automatically somehow? > >Odd. Do you have anything in /boot.config? I don't have a boot.config, is that a problem? I've tried the fdisk in /stand/sysinstall a few more times trying different things, still no luck. Would there be a way to dump the boot manager with the disklabel command or something? I've done a disklabel -B da0 once with no luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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