Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 02:27:44 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? Message-ID: <199812050127.CAA04829@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <2108.912819387@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 4, 98 04:56:27 pm"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote... > > Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: > > > > load: can't find '/mfsroot' > > > > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > > Hmmmm. OK, over to Mike at this point - I thought it was supposed > to find /mfsroot.gz automagically but evidently that's now broken. Well, I'm happy to know I was not the only one expecting that to work. > Sure would be nice if we could just work out whether it's going to > be "magic" or not and just stick to it. :) Whenever we can get it working I'll more than happy to write a short 'How-To' for Freebsd/axp. BTW: I don't like Freebsd/alpha, because of the overloading of alpha in the software engineering world. Not that I really like the axp phrase coined by Digital productmarketing but it at least makes a distinction with the 'other' alpha meaning. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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