From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 9 13:44:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F41E37BF76; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:44:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA64701; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:44:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA04380; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:44:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809162508.05e3d500@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 16:39:58 -0400 To: stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: top: nlist failed on STABLE with a boot floppy Cc: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been trying to make a boot floppy for my 4.STABLE box from Aug 3rd. I formatted the floppy, and I can boot from it, but when I run top, I get top: nlist failed Searching through the archives, the only references to it, deal with the kernel being out of date with the rest of world. On the boot floppy I created newmail# cat boot.config 0:ad(0,a)/kernel newmail# and did a cp -pR /boot to the floppy. Like I said, it all boots fine, and uname -a gives the same kernel info/version as booting without it. I am still searching through the mailinglist/newsgroup archives for the definitive guide on making a boot floppy but have yet to find the exact reference on what I am missing. Can anyone correct my pilot error or point me in the right direction as to what I need to do to make a boot floppy ? I am trying to work around the fact that my BIOS will not let me which 'scsi' device I want to boot with. It always defaults to the 3ware RAID controller and not my Adaptect 2940. Thanks, ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message