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From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,
        "K Ueda" <kueda@jupiter.qse.tohoku.ac.jp>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 11:56:59 -0500
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On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:15:34 +0900, K Ueda wrote:

>I made two floppy disks of boot.flp and fixit.flp for 2.2.8R and tried
>to run shell in fixit mode using them.  When I choose "Fixit" menu and 
>then (2) ("Floppy...."), a message came out to insert a writable fixit 
>floppy.  I did so, but nothing came out in VTY4 screen.  Pressing
>Alt+F2, some following debug(?) messages were displayed:
>
>  DEBUG: Init floppy called for some distribution.
>  mountmsdosfs(): bad bpb
>  DEBUG: initFloppy: mounted floppy /dev/fd0 successfully on /mnt2
>
>Those image files have correct MD5 values.
>
>Has anybody succeeded it? Or any commnet?

I submitted the following bug report a couple days ago...

>Number:         9051
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       2.2.8R boot floppy won't write to fixit floppy
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 10 22:10:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Steve Friedrich
>Organization:
>Release:        2.2.8R
>Environment:
Not pertinent, really. The machine happens to be -stable, last cvsupped
12-04-98, but the problem is the 2.2.8R floppies.

>Description:
boot.flp won't write to fixit.flp (2.2.8R)

I downloaded these from 2.2.7R and they worked.
In an attempt to isolate the problem, I tried using the 2.2.7R fixit
floppy with the 2.2.8R boot floppy (I don't know if this is valid,
matched set?), but the symptom was the same.  It appears the boot
floppy is the culprit.

>How-To-Repeat:
1.Get boot.flp and fixit.flp from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/floppies/
2.fdimage each to a floppy.
3.boot from the boot floppy, skip kernel config (GENERIC is ok for my
system)
4.
>Fix:
Workaround is to use 2.2.7R boot.flp and fixit.flp
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


Steve Friedrich
Viva la FreeBSD!!
Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes.



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