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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:11:59 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
Message-ID:  <20021121031158.GC8009@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20021121030856.GB8009@gothmog.gr>
References:  <20021121025606.GA8009@gothmog.gr> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211202159060.17320-100000@andromeda.68k.org> <20021121030856.GB8009@gothmog.gr>

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On 2002-11-21 05:08, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>
> The next thing you can try is to boot off a FreeBSD CD-ROM and
> interrupt the loader as it starts to show the spinning character.

I'm sorry.  I failed to mention *how*.
When the spinner starts, just press SPACE.

> Instead of letting it boot from 0:fd(0,a)/kernel which is IIRC the
> default kernel that the boot CD-ROM starts, press backspace to delete
> 0:fd(0,a)/kernel and write:
>
> 	0:ad(0,a)/kernel
>
> That should boot from the disk.


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