panic booting install CD

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 19 03:47:32 PDT 2005


> When you say "booting manually", do you mean something like:
> 
>  > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:X
> where X is some number?  If so, I haven't tried doing that on my  
> sawtooth and could see if that yields different results.

  That's right: break into OpenFirmware with cmd-opt-o-f instead of just 
holding down the 'c' key and enter the boot command as you typed.

  cd:X will always be cd:0.

later,

Peter.


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