In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dave Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : : On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: : : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Evans) writes: : > : At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console : > : and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you to : > : change the drive and partition of the loader program, e.g. : > : ad(0,e)/boot/loader. : > : : > : At least that's how it used to work. Nowadays, judging from my current : > : of October 20, 2002, the - sign is no longer displayed and boot2 goes : > : straight through to the loader. : > : : > : Is this a bug, perhaps fixed, or has the prompt been taken out to make : > : room for UFS2 code? I've looked through the commit logs and there : > : is nothing to indicate the prompt has been taken out. : > : > It appears that we set autoboot to 1. If there is a /boot.config and : > we cannot parse it, we set it to 0. When set to 0 we prompt. : > However, it looks like there might be a bug, or it might be a boot0cfg : > issue: : > : : I put -z in /boot.config as an illegal option, in the hope : that it would disable autoboot. It does, the prompt is now displayed, : but it does not allow you to type anything in. Even a carriage return : has no effect. The result is you cannot boot at all. : : *** warning: do not try this unless you have a way of restoring : boot.config :-(
Which makes sense, given the rest of the analysis. You'll need new boot blocks to fix it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
