From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 21 9:57:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4A437B401; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from wonky.feral.com (wonky.feral.com [192.67.166.7]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7LGvUI75461; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:57:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: To: John Baldwin Cc: Subject: Re: my bootable CDs... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010821095617.S23686-100000@wonky.feral.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > > 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. I'm not as stupid as you seem to think. I'm suggesting that this would be a cheap thing to try to see if it solves this specific problem. *Then* you might have a chance finding where the breakage is more quickly. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message