From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 21 16:32:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4705337BCAA for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:32:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA42795; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:32:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Thierry.herbelot" Cc: Joe Abley , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2 In-Reply-To: <38D71C22.62A29CCE@cybercable.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message