From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Aug 20 20:15:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (dsl092-013-169.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BE137B405 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:15:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.5/8.11.1) id f7L3FRD58809; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:15:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:15:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: my bootable CDs... Message-ID: <20010820201527.D58488@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20010820233845.A23536@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:56:08PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message