From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 18 22:26:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23169 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:26:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23158 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:26:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id HAA14738; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:25:54 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id HAA02779; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:25:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:25:40 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Mike Smith Cc: Andreas Klemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make release produces unbootable boot floppies, no boot loader, no /kernel Message-ID: <19990119072540.A2761@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <19990119064856.A991@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <199901190552.VAA01750@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901190552.VAA01750@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:52:26PM -0800 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:52:26PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies. > > I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm and did a make world and > > make release .... > > > > Now I tried the boot.flp image from the ftp subdir in /R/.... > > > > First error message > > No /boot/loader > > Then the typical "boot banner" > > 2nd error message > > No /kernel > > When typing ? > > . .. kernel.gz > > When typing kernel.gz to load this kernel > > invalid format > > Of course, it's gzipped. > > > Well, there is _still_ something wron, believe me. > > The single-floppy install is broken. Use the two-floppy install as > I've been encouraging people to do now since the 12th. This sounds like booting/installing from CD-ROM is currently impossible as well ??? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message