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Subject: Re: boot process failure (/boot.config, boot2, loader)
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J oberweith schrieb:
> [...]
> 
> Now during boot it stops in (apparently) boot2 with:
> 
> Free BSD/i386 boot
> Default: 0:ad(0,a)2
> boot:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Any ideas on how to use the boot2 system to find/edit/remove the /boot.config file?

You can't.

> Or maybe to just tell the boot2 process to ignore /boot.config?

As far as I know you can't either.

But try "/boot/loader" instead of "2" or "root" ;-)

Björn