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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: installing boot?
In-Reply-To: <199812060648.WAA02601@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 5, 98 10:48:12 pm"
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:10:57 +0100 (CET)
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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
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