From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 11:34:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA17209 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:34:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17203 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:34:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA02969; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:34:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Vincent Poy cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor Bootup problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > Does anyone know what I can do to fix the following? I had tried > reinstalling bootinst.exe from dos and recompiled a new kernel. The > problem seems to be the FreeBSD Boot manager on one of the machines only > when it asks to hit the Fx key for FreeBSD, it would say boot.help not > found and boot.config not found. Then when it loads the kernel, it would > say kernel.config not found. Any ideas? Thanks! boot.help and boot.config are two new files that come with the new boot blocks on 2.2-STABLE, 2.2.5-RELEASE, and later. You can grab ftp://gdi.uoregon.edu/pub/boot/boot.help and copy it to /boot.help to shut up the first message. For the second, create the file /boot.config and put the boot string for your machine, or try leaving it blank. kernel.config I've never heard of and it doesn't exist on my 2.2.5 machine. If it isn't a showstopper you can probably ignore it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major