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Date:      Sun, 06 Dec 1998 16:41:43 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing boot? 
Message-ID:  <199812070041.QAA00912@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Dec 1998 15:10:57 %2B0100." <199812061410.PAA02972@yedi.iaf.nl> 

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> > > /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?

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