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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't boot FreeBSD - Sysinstall keeps coming up! Date: 2 Jan 1997 12:41:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5agaea$6fa@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <58qtkn$9n5@nyx10.cs.du.edu> <59ms8t$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5ac258$6cc@nyx10.cs.du.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33446 thu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Timothy Hu) wrote: > >> come up. The kernel loads, but Sysinstall keeps coming up. I can't seem > >> to get the system booted! Can anyone help? > > > >Are you sure you've removed the floppy before rebooting? :-) > Yup! Then the only explanation is that your /etc/rc must be (or must call) /stand/sysinstall... Boot with -s (single-user), and look around. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)