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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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To: eischen@vigrid.com, mike@smith.net.au
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FLAG DAY COMING (was Re: New aout-to-elf build failures.)
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Mike Smith wrote:
> > 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: 0:wd(0,a)/boot/loader

  BTX loader 0.01  BTX version is 0.87
  Console: internal video/keyboard
  BIOS drive A: is disk0
  BIOS drive C: is disk1
  BIOS drive D: is disk2

  FreeBSD/i386 bootstraploader, Revision 0.2 640/65472kB
  ...
  Can't open '/boot/boot.conf': no such file or directory
  Hit [Enter]...

  disk1s3a>

It loaded /boot/loader from my SCSI drive, not from the LS-120
drive.

Dan Eischen
eischen@pcnet.com

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