From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 15 11:45:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-relay-1.Adobe.COM (smtp-relay-1.adobe.com [192.150.11.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE1F37B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:45:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from inner-relay-1.Adobe.COM (inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com [153.32.1.51]) by smtp-relay-1.Adobe.COM (8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA03329 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com by inner-relay-1.Adobe.COM (8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA27805; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from kaufman-wl ([153.32.71.12]) by mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G4308E00.7GT; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:45:50 -0800 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20001115114025.00af7c10@mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com> X-Sender: marckauf@mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:45:50 -0800 To: Andrew Gallatin From: "Marc Kaufman" Subject: Re: 4.2RC1 hosed on AS1200 Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14866.57941.961166.64076@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <4.2.2.20001115111706.00aee970@mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com> <20001115080554.A2707@freebie.demon.nl> <4.2.2.20001115111706.00aee970@mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:25 PM 11/15/00 -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: >Can you try the following work-around: >Go get the 4.0-RELEASE boot floppy. Mount it. Copy off /boot/loader >Mount the 4.2 floppy. Replace /boot/loader with the one from 4.0. >Attempt booting your 1200. Is there any improvement? I started some time ago by getting the 4.0 Release CD. I could not boot either from the CD directly, or from the 4.0 floppies. Same symptoms as with 4.2. I will try Matthew Jacob's suggestion if I can and get back to you all. > If you have the > ability, on a separate system, to dd the boot.flp (kern.flp && mfsroot.flp in > one 3MB image) onto the first sectors of the disk you'd install on the AS1200, > you can try that as an install path. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message