Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:23:36 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot Loader Broken? Message-ID: <44bq7taemf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <8d23ec860801091038i4878b8b1lbfbacbd8a4dbac73@mail.gmail.com> (Schiz0's message of "Wed\, 9 Jan 2008 13\:38\:31 -0500") References: <8d23ec860801091038i4878b8b1lbfbacbd8a4dbac73@mail.gmail.com>
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Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> writes: > I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some > problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of. > > Now I'm having another very odd problem. > > I originally noticed something odd when I tried to shutdown from > multiuser mode into single user mode. I ran "shutdown now" as root in > multiuser. It said it was shutting down, etc. But then, it gave me the > normal multiuser login prompt. So then I tried rebooting completely, > and that's where the big error came up: Note that rebooting completely *is* the normal procedure, so that you know your kernel boots before you overwrite anything that depends on it. > > ----------------------------------------------------- > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (root@Mercury, Tue Jan 8 14:22:21 EST 2008) >> \ > \: unknown command > - > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x29e868 data=0x2db8c+0x23814 > syms=[0x4+0x34c10+0x4+0x43ef1] > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for a command prompt. > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 4 seconds ... > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Why it trying to run the command "\" ? Right before I did this, I > rebuilt world, including the kernel. I installed the new kernel, and > was moving down to single user to install world. > > Is my bootloader corrupt somehow? I would suspect something more like some extra text in loader.conf.
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