From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Dec 7 17:26:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16377 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:26:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp6.portal.net.au [202.12.71.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16361 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:26:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00912; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812070041.QAA00912@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wilko Bulte cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 Dec 1998 15:10:57 +0100." <199812061410.PAA02972@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 16:41:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > /mfsroot.gz is on the floppy, on an UFS filesystem written by FreeBSD/x86: > > > > Yes; there's some problem with floppy filesystems that I haven't been > > able to work out yet. Make a second copy of the kern.flp, delete the > > files off it and put the mfsroot.gz file on there instead. For some > > reason that seems to work OK. > > I tried this and it works OK now, finds mfsroot etc. What I need to figure > out now is why it did not find the harddisks (at least that is what > sysinstall tells me, and it is bogus). What disks, what controller? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message