Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:40:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems booting kernel from large drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002181740120.2204-100000@kaon.intercom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002181650420.2204-100000@kaon.intercom.com>
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Forgot to mention that this is a 3.4-STABLE machine > I have a system with a 27gig IBM EIDE, and when I set up the system, > I only made 2 partitions, / and swapspace. The system has been working > just fine, till I did a "make world" and installed a new kernel. Now when > I boot, I get errors like this: > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel > boot: > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0xc21e2f) > Invalid format > > I am assuming I am getting this because I made the drive "dangerously > dedicated". Is there any way to install my new kernel in such a way that > it is loadable? > > Also, if I want to specify an alternate kernel to boot from on startup, > would I make an entry like this in /boot/loader.conf: > boot /kernel.old;/kernel.different > The loader(8) manpage is kinda vague. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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