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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 11:23:45 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newest loader from CVS not working
Message-ID:  <20050519112345.pkuuiedxwswkkk40@netchild.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050518223616.3f515599@dolphin.local.net>
References:  <20050518051111.GA33262@Athena.infor.org> <20050518223616.3f515599@dolphin.local.net>

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"Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> wrote:

> Luckily, I was able to boot from a 5.2 CD-ROM (the latest I had lying
> around here), went into "fixit" mode, renamed loader to loader.new and
> loader.old to loader, and the system came back up normally on the next
> boot.

Just load loader.old at boot time. You just have to press a key early in the
boot sequence (before it loads the kernel and the modules) and enter
"/boot/loader.old".

Bye,
Alexander.

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