From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 19:16:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28740 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28727 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:16:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA17509; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:16:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:16:07 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Richard Dawes Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot.flp versions Message-ID: <19990120191607.A17471@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Richard J. Dawes on Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 05:50:58PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm wondering if an earlier boot.flp, say from the 1/6/99 SNAP, will > work just the same? Thanks. Normally, a boot.flp of about the same time will work fine. You just need to go into the Options and change the release name string. The 1/6/99 boot.flp is broken. /boot/* can't be found. This means you can't do a fresh install (well, maybe in dangeriously dedicated mode -- I didn't try that) because the boot blocks can't be found by sysinstall. I was able to install the 1/6/99 SNAP by 1st installing a minimal 3.0-R and then doing an upgrade using the 1/6/99 boot.flp. This will leave you with an a.out kernel. You will need to install new boot blocks before you make your first 1/6/99 kernel. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message