Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:08:41 -0700 (PDT) From: agent smith <runner1010101@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't boot kernel from boot prompt :( Message-ID: <20030704190841.68713.qmail@web20706.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello,
Have a 5.1 install on a two HD machine. disk1 is
winXP, disk2 is FreeBSD. I couldn't get the install to
write to the MBR on disk1, so I tried booting from the
CD and at the boot prompt trying to load the kernel
from my BSD partition. Can't get it. I've read a few
things I could find on google and they didn't work,
kept looking on the CD I think. Sorry, not very savy
at this yet, though I didn't think it would matter
between 4.8 and 5.1, so didn't try a older release
version. I just need some info on the correct method
for booting from the prompt.
lsdev at the prompt lists something like
Disk0: drive A:
Disk1: drive C:
shows two partitions ( thiis is XP drive)
Disk2:
shows my BSD partions:
ad1s1a UFS ( or whatever the partition is...)
ad1s1b swap
...
I've tried the following at the boot prompt (prefaced
with 'boot' or
'load'):
disk2s1a:/kernel
disk2s1a:kernel
disk2s1a:/boot/kernel
'' /boot/kernel/kernel
2:ad(1,a)/kernel
...
and many variations of this.
I know it's kinda funny looking at all the things I
tried, I'm new! :)
Anyway, like I said, it would seem to access the CD
and after a bit I would get the message "can't find
<insert above attempt> .."
Any help would be appreciated, I just wanna boot from
my HD! /waaaa!
Thanks for any assistance. I've looked in the archives
and haven't came across anything that worked.
JD
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