From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 18:14:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA17963 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (root@cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.2.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA17954 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:13:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.3/8.7.3) id WAA23446; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 22:49:22 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199701090049.WAA23446@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: boot floppies broken? To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 22:49:22 -0200 (EDT) Cc: ian@gamespot.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701082225.PAA02950@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 8, 97 03:25:07 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (changed to -questions, since this does not belong to -isp) #define quoting(Nate Williams) // Ian Kallen writes: // > I've downloaded boot.flp from /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.6-RELEASE (yes, as a // > binary) and used // > dd if=/tmp/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0c bs=36b // > to make an image but if I try to mount it I get a bad superblock // > complaint. // // The disks aren't filesystems, so therefore aren't mountable and/or // fsck'able. Is it possible to access its information ? I suspect one of my machines is having problems with the floppy boot code, so I'd like to try DOS fbsdboot.exe with the boot.flp kernel. Is this kernel image available somewhere ? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro