Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-12-23 14:18, Ariane & Ron Joordens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Afternoon All,
My FreeBSD 6.0 computer refuses to boot. It gets to the screen where it
pauses for 10 seconds and gives you the choice of 8 boot options, and
then...nothing!
Choosing the default option shows a single line "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko
text= etc,..." then the next line shows "|", and that's it. All the
other boot options show just the "|" and that's it. I have waited for up
to 30 minutes, but no change. The only way out is to reset the computer.
Prior to this prblem the computer worked perfectly. FreeBSD 5.4 was
installed about 4 months ago, this was upgraded to 6.0 about 2 months
ago. Everything had been recompiled and I never had any problems, until
this.
I suspect that my 2 year old son has been pressing the power button
repeatedly which may have caused this.
Do you still have the FreeBSD install CD-ROM? You can use that to boot.
DON'T INSTALL ANYTHING, though :)
Just make sure that the CD-ROM boots fine up to the sysinstall menu.
If that works, then there's definitely something wrong with the kernel
or the other boot files you have on disk, and we'll see what can be
done.
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Thanks Giorgos,
The install cd boots just fine. So I then looked up the manual and tried
to boot from /boot/kernel.old.kernel but that doesn't work either.
What can we do next?
Ron
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