I did a binary upgrade from 3.5 to 4.3-RELEASE using floppies and ftp. The upgrade went fine, but I had a bad idea, and decided to upgrade my sources via cvsup. Here is my present situation/problem: When booting from HD, I use a boot manager (Win98, OS/2, FreeBSD), and go to FreeBSD. About 1 second after clicking FreeBSD, there appears a single line of about 14 characters of gibberish at the bottom left of my monitor. It doesn't lock-up the keyboard, but I can't get anything to happen either. The Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock keys all work. Anyway, I hit C-A-D, and reboot with the kern.flp disk. As soon as the "baton" shows, I hit the space bar and type "0:ad(0,a)kernel" and FreeBSD boots from the HD just fine. Everything is mounted, all programs run, I can log in as a normal user and root. Everything is there and looks/runs great. If I understand correctly, /boot/boot0 and /boot/boot1 are the first files "read". Did I damage one of those files or perhaps a different partition on my FreeBSD slice is being pointed to to boot? Can it be repaired? No, I don't have a back-up... no room to spare :( BTW- /etc/fstab and ls -l /dev |grep ad0 show the same devices (if that helps) TIA, Mike __________________________________________________________ I use: FreeBSD 4.2, L-M 7.2, OS/2 Warp3&4, Amiga 4000 ICQ #54186124 BP40MM May God bless you abundantly __________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
