Boot error

[rajoor]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2005-12-23 14:18, Ariane & Ron Joordens <joordens at aanet.com.au> wrote:
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>>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.
>>    
>>
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>Do you still have the FreeBSD install CD-ROM?  You can use that to boot.
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>DON'T INSTALL ANYTHING, though :)
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>Just make sure that the CD-ROM boots fine up to the sysinstall menu.
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>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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