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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:32:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Thierry.herbelot" <herbelot@cybercable.fr>
Cc:        Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003211631260.50553-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <38D71C22.62A29CCE@cybercable.fr>

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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Thierry.herbelot wrote:

> I had the exact same error message trying to boot from a floppy where I
> had tried to dd the full boot.flp (2,8 Megs is just too much for a
> normal floppy), instead of kern.flp (and dd does not give error messages
> ..)

I would be in favor of renaming the boot.flp to something obviously
different, like 288boot.flp, to untrain us 2.x heads that got used to the
single-floppy installer of yore. :)  I still reach for 'boot.flp' and have
to kick myself to grab kern/mfsroot instead.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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