Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, peter@netplex.com.au Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FLAG DAY COMING (was Re: New aout-to-elf build failures.) Message-ID: <199901020054.QAA01246@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Jan 1999 19:54:31 EST." <199901020054.TAA05145@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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> Mike Smith wrote: > > > Thanks for the directions. This works fine on my laptop with fd drive, > > > but my home system doesn't currently have a floppy drive. It has a > > > LS120 (wfd) drive and the same floppy doesn't work on it. It can't > > > find /boot/loader. I suspect wfd support isn't built into boot2.c > > > yet? > > > > Actually, it *ought* to work at that point. It wouldn't suprise me if > > you had trouble booting with the LS120 as the root device, but I can't > > see why boot2 can't find the loader. What do you get if you type '?' > > at the boot: prompt? > > I got it to boot by using "0:wd(0,a)/kernel" at the prompt (wd instead > of wfd). But to answer your question: What if you try '0:wd(0,a)/boot/loader' ?? > No /boot/loader > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default:0:fd(0,a)/kernel > boot: ? > > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default:0:fd(0,a)/kernel > boot: > > nothing happens when you type '?'. Ok, looks like your BIOS might be playing funny games. If you get the loader to start as above, a copy of the BIOS drive summary it prints would be really handy. Thanks for the information. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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