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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:57:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: my bootable CDs...
Message-ID:  <20010821095617.S23686-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010821084838.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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> > 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



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