Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 06:34:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing (Last one for tonight) Message-ID: <199811021434.GAA10836@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 09:52:11 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811020951180.454-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > You forgot to copy boot2 from/to the same location. This will lead to > > a mild disaster (although you can boot the install kernel, not change > > the floppy so the mfsroot.gz load fails, and it will come up using the > > harddisk as root). > > In my locally built snapshot, boot2 has been renamed to loader so this bit > worked fine. Whoops, that's right, there's only one bootstrap component that's read out of the filesystem. *slap* -- \\ 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
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