From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 25 17:53:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DB737B719 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:53:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05304; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:53:42 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f2Q1rCZ66026; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:53:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15038.41224.595755.369957@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:53:12 -0500 (EST) To: "Michael Richards" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader Progress... In-Reply-To: <3ABE8E49.000033.08638@frodo.searchcanada.ca> References: <3ABE8E49.000033.08638@frodo.searchcanada.ca> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Richards writes: > > Yes, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org -- TRUST ME, many of us will try > > them and get them committed if they help the situation > > Any ideas on the history of this bug? > Has the loader always been broken? > Does it work on any platform or just not my AS1200? It's always worked on all platforms except the rawhide (AS1200, AS4000, AS4100 and the "ultimate workstation" & whitebox versions of the former). Well, maybe that's too generous; the loader has had serious bugs before.. Let's just say that _this_ bug has never been seen on any other platform and has always been seen on this platform. <...> > for the filesystem, or it might be some mis-ported ufs code. Has > anyone been able to get this loader to use the tftp loader to net- > boot? Yes, that's how most new platforms get support. I can't imagine creating boot floppies for each boot attempt on a brand new platform that I don't have proper documentation for. Ugh. Diskless booting is how I do most of my installs here too. I'm not sure if anybody has netbooted a rawhide though... Matt? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message