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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:34:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        gsimonoff@geocities.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ref: Installing on a 486dx4
Message-ID:  <199912111734.MAA67730@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <3851F66E.31E4B9A0@geocities.com> from greg simonoff at "Dec 10, 1999 10:59:58 pm"

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greg simonoff wrote,
> Hi,
> I'm trying to load FreeBSD3.2
> 
>     Here's what happens.  I make the Kernel and
> the boot floppy.  I cold start to the Kernel
> floppy and after some probing it
> I am eventually told to insert the boot floppy. The
> system then does a warm boot, and
> as soon as the boot floppy starts it promptly
> imforms me that there is no kernal loaded.  So
> somehow between the time the first floppy is
> run and the second floppy is loaded the kernel
> has disappeared?  But, of course if the kernel was
> loaded in memory by the kernel disk and the machine
> reboots then how can the second disk find the kernel?
> What is supposed to be happening?

The machine should not be _rebooting_ after the kern.flp. Is that
really what you mean?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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