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To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, wkb@freebie.demon.nl,
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From: wkb@freebie.demon.nl
Subject: Re: Rawhide still broken on 4.3beta
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:23:20 GMT
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> 
> wkb@freebie.demon.nl writes:
>  > Please prove me wrong.. but in my experience Rawhide (AS4[10]00) is still
>  > broken in 4.3beta. At least as far as booting the CD goes:
> 
>  > (and hangs here)
>  > 
>  > I hope it is not the 2GB of memory biting me here. I cannot easily change
>  > that, and our other AS4100 is 5GB so that is even worse (as far as
>  > FreeBSD goes ;)
>  > 
> 
> No, its not the memory.  There's some problem with our bootloader that
> causes it to fail to load a kernel from slow media on Rawhides.  The
> workaround is to dd the 2.88 MB floppy to a hard disk & boot from
> that.

I was just hoping 4.3 mysteriously fixed this problem. It's been there
for quite some time now.

I will RELNOTE it

> This will take a lot of time to fix, in addition to physical access to
> a rawhide & a good understanding of the boot loader.  AFAIK, nobody
> has all three, so this remains broken.

Seems like it yes

Wilko
(heading for the Lynx with a
CD)


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