On Wed, 18 May 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005 15:36:26 -0700 (PDT), Doug White > <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 May 2005, David Kleiner wrote: > > > > > > > > This is amd64 Asus A8N mobo, previous -current (May 1) worked fine, > > > I cannot boot even into kernel.old any more, the only option is > > > older i386 -current and maybe I can fix things from there. The > > > boot loader said i386/FreeBSD but I don't remember what it said > > > before for amd64 - it was happening too fast. > > > > Yes, its specific to amd64. There is a /boot/loader.old you can use > > just in case, but you need to break into boot2 to get to it. At the > > first spinny hit a key and it should drop you to a boot: prompt. > > Yes, this also occurred on my amd64 box. At first, I was totally > stymied as to how to proceed. I ended up booting from a 5.2 CD-ROM, > went into fixit mode, mounted / under /mnt and renamed loader.old to > loader (after renaming loader to loader.new). > > Thanks for the tip on how to break out of the loading of the new loader. > One of those tricks I had either never learned in the first place, or > had completely forgotten about. :-) BTW a fix has been committed, so things should be good again after your next update. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri May 20 2005 - 17:46:34 UTC
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