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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:46:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: problems creating 4.4-alpha test/release cdrom
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On 06-Aug-01 Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:34:58AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:59:40PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>> > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 11:45:24PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:14:19AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> > > > On 2001-Aug-05 19:00:55 +0200, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > >I seem to be having an interesting problem creating a CD that is
>> > > > >bootable
>> > > > >on Alpha. I built a release (too a while on the PWS600au but it got
>> > > > >there).
> 
> ....
> 
>> ok boot
>> can't load 'kernel'
>> boot: no bootable kernel
>> 
>> Which is not true because:
>> 
>> freebie# ls -l k*
>> -r--r--r--  2 root  wheel  6298064 Apr 21 21:16 kernel
> 
> That                                          ^^^^ 
> 
> should have been:
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  6229000 Aug  5 15:48 kernel
> 
> [repeat after me: cut from the right window ]

I assume the kernel is in /?

Can you do 'load /kernel' (Note the /) and then boot?

If so, does 'boot /kernel' work as well?

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