From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 12 23:24:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 23:24:14 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nordier.com (c2-dbn-101.dial-up.net [196.34.155.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436A437B402 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:24:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by nordier.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBD7PDw00450; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:25:13 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from rnordier) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <200012130725.eBD7PDw00450@nordier.com> Subject: Re: boot blocks question To: archie@dellroad.org (Archie Cobbs) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:25:11 +0200 (SAST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200012130554.eBD5spr43566@curve.dellroad.org> from "Archie Cobbs" at Dec 12, 2000 09:54:51 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Archie Cobbs wrote: > 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? It should work; works here, though I used an older boot.flp. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com rnordier@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message