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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:15:27 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: my bootable CDs...
Message-ID:  <20010820201527.D58488@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108201639490.69048-100000@beppo>; from mjacob@feral.com on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:56:08PM -0700
References:  <20010820233845.A23536@freebie.xs4all.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108201639490.69048-100000@beppo>

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:56:08PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> Disk1 has a /kernel && a /boot, but /boot only has:

/boot on the CDROM itself is not used for anything during booting or
installing.  The kernel file is an MFS root kernel.

> The fixit CDROM (disk2) has the full complement of /boot, including defaults
> and Forth code, etc.

That is there for the "live FS" purpose -- ie, you can copy /boot from
disc #2 to your / when you've trashed /boot.
 
> It seems a quick and cheap thing to try is to put the full /boot complement
> into disk1's /boot.

It wouldn't be used.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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