<span class="gmail_quote">On 9/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">jekillen</b> <<a href="mailto:jekillen@prodigy.net">jekillen@prodigy.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
<br>On Sep 2, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:<br><br>>> This is the console output:<br>>> FreeBSD/i386 boot<br>>> default: 0;ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel<br>><br>> J:<br>><br>> Gotta love how this stuff still happens in 2007, huh>
<br>><br>> What we need to do is validate that the BIOS of your motherboard is<br>> mapping device at 0x80 to what FreeBSD later interprets to be "ad4".<br>><br>> The 1st and 2nd stage boot loader isn't going to know anything about
<br>> kernel device names.<br>><br>> We know because the 1st stage loader is starting that the BIOS is<br>> picking the correct physical drive to read the MBR from.<br>><br>> Break out of the boot loader and send us the output of:
<br>><br>> lsdev -v<br>> boot-conf<br>> show<br>><br>Learning how as I go .... how do I break out of the boot loader, to<br>what shell? What runs this series of instructions?<br>Thats is deeper than I have gone to this point. Like, even though I
<br>have found my way around the shell enough<br>to do tar -xvf (ect) and ./config and all those incantations, and even<br>find my way through errors here and there,<br>tinker with some shell scripting, python scripting, even some console c
<br>programming; and lots and lots of php.<br>Nothing can be worse than javascript from scratch from text books. But<br>I got the hang of that too.<br>this is something I am unfamiliar with.<br><br>> Also, we can find out what changed in loader(8) on AMD64 pretty easily
<br>> between 6.0 and 6.2 using CVS.<br>><br>just some extra data if it makes a difference here, I am using generic<br>kernel, not AMD64 (and I presume<br>there is a difference).<br><br>Thanks for the response and info.
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<br>%We meet the first Wednesday of the month<br></blockquote><br>Right during the point during the boot process, when you see the little spinner spinning, pay attention.<br>You'll soon see text that reads "Hit [Enter] to boot, any other key to go to command prompt"
<br><br>Right at this point, you smack any key except Enter. You should end up in at the boot loader's prompt,<br>which is where you can execute these commands.<br><br>