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Date:      Sat, 08 Jul 2000 16:42:46 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Dampure, Pierre Y." <pierre.dampure@alveley.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot Oddities
Message-ID:  <3966DB76.311380D2@newsguy.com>
References:  <39598B27.341B68CC@alveley.org> <3959A580.E6EDE4EC@alveley.org> <395A1A38.94D5880@alveley.org>

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"Dampure, Pierre Y." wrote:
> 
> Apologies to all, this was a pilot error. /boot/defaults/loader.conf was
> referencing disk1s1a -- it should have been disk2s1a (I forgot the
> floppy was included in the unit count).

For the record, this _cannot_ be the cause of the problem you had.

I'd rather bet the loader binary was above 1023 cylinders, and after
playing a while you replaced it with one below that mark.

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org

		<jkh> _DES: The Book of Bruce has only one sentence in it, and it says
"the actual directives of my cult are left as an exercise for the
reader. Good luck."
		<EE> jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part?
		<jkh> EE: OK, I made that part up.
		<jkh> EE: I figured it should sound a bit more cheery than how Bruce
initially dictated it to me.


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