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Subject: Re: 4.10-STABLE boot issues
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On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Brad Waite wrote:

> > It obviously works for the rest of the world, and it doesn't look like a
> > BIOS access problem since it can read the file fine if its on /.
>
> Well /boot is *not* on /dev/da0s1a.  It's on /dev/amrd0s1a, but boot2
> doesn't know how to get at the amr device.  At least not as far as I've
> tested.  I'm leery of messing around in
> /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c, but if someone wants to give me
> some pointers, I'll try it.

This is new information ... the BIOS Int13 calls for the AMR may be doing
something evil.  Is there updated firmware for that device available?

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