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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Subject: Re: my bootable CDs...
Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On 20-Aug-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
>> > CD #1 needs to work.  Installs should only need CD #1.  Both CD's should
>> > be
>> > bootable, so you can boot off of disk 2 and go directly into fixit mode
>> > w/o
>> > having to swap CD's.
>> 
>> Yes, exactly my idea. I never had a #2 CD before. I'm currently building
>> a new buildworld / release and I'll try to find out *what* it is that makes
>> #2 a GO and #1 a NO-GO.
> 
> 
> *cough*
> 
> Disk1 has a /kernel && a /boot, but /boot only has:
> 
> mathom.nas.nasa.gov > ls boot
> TRANS.TBL       cdboot*         loader*         loader.rc
> 
> The fixit CDROM (disk2) has the full complement of /boot, including defaults
> and Forth code, etc.
> 
> It seems a quick and cheap thing to try is to put the full /boot complement
> into disk1's /boot.

We don't use the 4th stuff for installation booting.  Look at loader.rc, it
doesn't include /boot/loader.4th, so none of the other stuff is needed.  The
loader.rc just loads a kernel and boots.

> -matt

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