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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: current: unable to boot (bt_strategy X not multiple of block
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On Mon, 16 May 2005, David Kleiner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As the subject says, -current as of this evening (US/Pacific),  booted
> with an older i386 slice.
>
> Is there a way to recover?

Hit a key when the spinny initially appears to get boot2 to come up, then
try loading loader.old:

boot: ad(0,a)/boot/loader.old

switch ad for da if needed.

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