Re: boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-13 Thread Dave Evans
REPOST, previous message may have failed to get through. I put -z as an illegal option in /boot.config with the intention of disabling autoboot. The prompt is now displayed, but it does not allow any keyboard input and does not proceed any further. (*** don't try this unless you have a way of

Re: boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Evans writes: : REPOST, previous message may have failed to get through. : : I put -z as an illegal option in /boot.config with the intention of : disabling autoboot. The prompt is now displayed, but it does not allow : any keyboard input and does not proceed

Re: boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-12 Thread Dave Evans
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

Re: boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-12 Thread M. Warner Losh
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 :

boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-11 Thread Dave Evans
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