From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 16 20:06:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA26992 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 20:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26987 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 20:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA12319; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 20:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 20:05:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Andre Albsmeier cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't find boot.config/boot.help, WHY? In-Reply-To: <199708140725.JAA16187@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > i recently changed my boot drive to a 500MB IBM SCSI disk. > Everything works fine, but when getting started, the bootblocks > tell something about "Can't find file boot.config" and > "Can't find file boot.help"... I installed the bootblocks > with "disklabel -B" and everuthing works, only this message > confuses me a little... > You're prbably on the 2.2.2 boot blocks which were rewritten significantly. Boot.config lets you set some boot-time parameters as well asthe location of where to boot (helpful when the boot blocks have trouble findnig the kernel, like in combo IDE/SCSI systems). boot.help, I don't know what it does. If you need these they might be on releng22.freebsd.org. As you said, everything works OK w/o them. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major