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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 08:01:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: boot mgr warning - cant find boot.config ?
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On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Kim Culhan wrote:
> 
> > Installed 3.0-970619-SNAP on a new disk, at boot time:
> > 
> > F1 . . . DOS
> > F2 . . . BSD
> > 
> > Default: F2
> > Can't find file boot.config
> > Can't find file boot.help
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Any info on where this is coming from is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Ain't it obvious?  It comes from missing /boot.config and /boot.help
> files. ;-)  Not from your boot manager, from FreeBSD's bootblocks.

This apparently came about as a result of a problem near the
end of the installation when the machine crashed. Sorry to report these
events were happening so fast I couldn't provide a very accurate 
description.

For a few seconds a warning notice was displayed describing an impending
crash and to advise jkh, is there a logfile written which would be of
any help ?

kim

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