Subject: Re: boot -c hangs and seeking live CD
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/21/2007 09:36:20
2007/11/20, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>:
> My main system died. It was running NetBSD/i386 HEAD from around
> September.
>
> I tried booting the 2.5 disk on an amd64 system and the keyboard didn't
> work. (Known problem with open PRs.) So I tried to boot with "boot -c" so
> I could "disable ohci" which has been my fix in the past.
>
> But "boot -c" just hung.
>
> Anyone seen that?
>
> Sorry for vague details as I didn't write it down and now the system is
> running with different disk.
>
> My next test will be to boot with a live CD while I have my 2.5 hard disk
> in the system so I can mount and transfer my data to another system on my
> network.
>
> Any recent live CDs available? (I don't want to create one now and the one
> I found was over a year old.)
>

Yes, jibbed.org is running current.

http://www.jibbed.org/

Zafer.