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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:50:19 -0700
From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
        Dan Strick <dan@math.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: more 3.0-RELEASE boot.flp problems
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On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 07:15:56PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Conclusion: 3.0-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp is broken.
> 
> Well, it sounds like the new boot manager (which is not BOOTEASY,
> even though it looks a bit like it) is in fact broken somehow,
> even though it works on my test machines (damn!).  Could you tell
> us a bit more about whether this was a dedicated/non-dedicated
> installation, whether there were other OSes on the disk, etc etc?

4GB disk (da0), using Fdisk to make 1 partition with 100%. Not using
the "Use Entire Disk" option. Using the standard MBR option, the system
comes up.

> 
> I really would like to continue using the new boot0 since it's
> the first time we've had a boot manager for which the sources were
> compiliable and maintained under the FreeBSD tree, unlike BOOTEASY
> which was a DOS program getting ever more stale under our umbrella.
> 
> - Jordan
> 
> P.S. to Robert:  I *told* you we should have made those prompts
> look more different; people are still confusing it with BOOTEASY! :-)
> 
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Regards, Ulf.

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