Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:10:57 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? Message-ID: <199812061410.PAA02972@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199812060648.WAA02601@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 5, 98 10:48:12 pm"
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As Mike Smith wrote... > > As Mike Smith wrote... > > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > > Booting [kernel] in 8 seconds... > > > > Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. > > disk0a:> ls > > ls: open '/' failed: no such file or directory > > Ok, this problem. yes.;-) > > disk0a:> > > > > /mfsroot.gz is on the floppy, on an UFS filesystem written by FreeBSD/x86: > > Yes; there's some problem with floppy filesystems that I haven't been > able to work out yet. Make a second copy of the kern.flp, delete the > files off it and put the mfsroot.gz file on there instead. For some > reason that seems to work OK. I tried this and it works OK now, finds mfsroot etc. What I need to figure out now is why it did not find the harddisks (at least that is what sysinstall tells me, and it is bogus). Thanks, Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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