Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:10:59 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: george.w.dinolt@lmco.com (George W. Dinolt) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader question Message-ID: <199811070811.KAA07985@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <3643D55C.DE98C1E7@lmco.com> from "George W. Dinolt" at "Nov 6, 98 09:06:36 pm"
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George W. Dinolt wrote: > I would like to be able to use the boot1 and boot2 from /boot on the > floppy. This does not seem to work. When I try the command > disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 /dev/fd0 > and then boot off the floppy I get an error and the system hangs in the > first boot phase. I can, of course, just ignore the problem for the > time being, but if/when the new files replace the current ones in > /usr/mdec, there could be problems. When you say "I get an error" do you mean a diagnostic, or are you just emphasizing that things aren't working right? I have substantially revised boot1 and should be committing this within the next day or two. Until now, we've been making use of a new set of BIOS extended disk services, but it has become painfully evident that a few BIOSes have problems with this approach, and they really weren't much of a win, anyway. > > Anyone have any suggestions? Since you use floppies, and get reproducible errors now, it'd be great if you'd undertake to test the new bootblocks and let us now if the problem has been resolved. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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