Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:45:13 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: george.w.dinolt@lmco.com (George W. Dinolt) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader question Message-ID: <199811090845.KAA05474@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <36465583.E523F26E@lmco.com> from "George W. Dinolt" at "Nov 8, 98 06:37:55 pm"
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George W. Dinolt wrote:
[ ... ]
> After the latest patches available via CTM (src-cur.3611)
> with the following "Id's"
> $Id: boot1.s,v 1.4 1998/11/05 20:52:25 rnordier Exp $
> $Id: boot2.c,v 1.13 1998/10/27 20:16:36 rnordier Exp $
>
> I create a floppy with the following set of commands:
>
> fdformat /dev/fd0.1440
> disklabel -w -r fd0 fd1440
> disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 /dev/fd0
> newfs rfd0 fd1440
> mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
> mkdir /floppy/boot
> cp /boot/{boot1,boot2,loader} /floppy/boot
> cd /floppy
> echo boot/loader > boot.config
>
> When I boot from this floppy I get the error message:
>
> Read error
> Hit return to reboot:
[ ... ]
Thanks for the detailed response.
A number of changes to boot1/boot2 were committed yesterday, and it
would be interesting to know whether these resolve the problem.
The most recent revisions are:
boot1.s 1.5
boot2.c 1.16
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Robert Nordier
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