Newest loader from CVS not working

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Thu May 19 02:23:55 PDT 2005


"Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads at cox.net> wrote:

> Luckily, I was able to boot from a 5.2 CD-ROM (the latest I had lying
> around here), went into "fixit" mode, renamed loader to loader.new and
> loader.old to loader, and the system came back up normally on the next
> boot.

Just load loader.old at boot time. You just have to press a key early in the
boot sequence (before it loads the kernel and the modules) and enter
"/boot/loader.old".

Bye,
Alexander.

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