From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 19 7:59:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE2711252 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 07:59:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id JAA19527; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:59:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id JAA19523; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:58:59 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <010001be5c20$e2daede0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "wildcardus freakis" , Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE and boot.flp (fwd) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:59:51 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How about more specifics? What is your hardware configuration? Two IDE drives? Where did you install FreeBSD? Try just typing: "boot" and see what you get. Also, "help " will tell you many of the boot commands and "show" will show some of the defined variables. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: wildcardus freakis To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 9:49 AM Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE and boot.flp (fwd) > > > Cool...I dl'd the 3.1-RELEASE floppies and am now sitting in front >of a boot prompt...I read the README.TXT with the floppies and it says >nothing about booting options/variables/etc.... > >I tried the usual method 0:fd(0,a)/kernel > /kernel.gz > /mfsroot > /mfsroot.gz > >so...(for lack of better formulation of a question) What do I type next? > > > > >Thanks >Sasha > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >GCM/CS/CC/GO d--- s: a--- C+++(++++) ULB+++(++++) P+ L++(+++) E--- W+(++) N+ O >K---- W---- O M-- V PS! PE! Y++ PGP++(+++) t++:+++> 5++ X++@ R+@ tv++ b++:+++> DDI+++ D++ G++:+++> e:+> h*:++@ r- !y+ >-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >www.geekcode.com > >-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- >Version: 2.6.2 > >mQCNAza/c7UAAAEEAOmJDB7LkJqynF6nlLRNTLPq23PKnU5G+mNCACKJBlzwJuQ8 >tohYSan+4QKY0l6Ton547LU/r49YNIx8tqACfLhbyMWiumOL1cRCYMufCnjEeWDa >d73LbKRvHgyMcGopiAIqLk7ieJ/Xc6joVN3GojpM3Zoy96dSUyTheUku+Y9tAAUR >tB93aWxkY2FyZEBpbi1kYXguYmVsZW4uazEyLm5tLnVz >=UM6D >-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > >This is the way the world ends >This is the way the world ends >This is the way the world ends >Not with a Bang, but with a whimper. > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message