From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 2: 4:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DEB37BBA6; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 02:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.9.3/1.13) id MAA90482; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:03:49 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:03:49 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Ben Smithurst , stable@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: top: nlist failed on STABLE with a boot floppy Message-ID: <20000810120349.C88858@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Tancsa , Ben Smithurst , stable@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809162508.05e3d500@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809162508.05e3d500@marble.sentex.ca> <20000809231957.H48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <4.2.2.20000809220528.04665d38@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000809220528.04665d38@mail.sentex.net>; from mike@sentex.net on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:14:45PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:14:45PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 11:19 PM 8/9/2000 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > >Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > > newmail# cat boot.config > > > 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > > > newmail# > > > >I think that's the problem; you should use /boot/loader instead of > >/kernel. If the advice to use /kernel is somewhere in the documentation > >let me know and I'll have a look at fixing it. > > > Thanks, that did the trick! Would this not make a good FAQ entry ? Perhaps > in addition to the "Custom Install Floppy Question." The process is > simple, but not that obvious at first blush. While searching through the > archives, I noticed lots of people asking how to do this as well. > I don't think we should put PR 17422 into FAQ :-) -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message