From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 12 21:54:56 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 21:54:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB1837B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA13439 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:54:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eBD5spr43566 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:54:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200012130554.eBD5spr43566@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: boot blocks question To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:54:51 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a laptop with 4.1 installed on it and am going to install a fresh version of 4.2 release. The laptop didn't have the floppy disk plugged in at the time, so I thought I'd "cheat" and save having to go find it by doing this: $ dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/ad0s1 $ reboot I have no idea whether this is supposed to work or not. In any case, it didn't. It gets as far as loading /boot/loader and fails. So, (purely out of curiousity) why didn't this work? -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message