Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:25:11 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: archie@dellroad.org (Archie Cobbs) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot blocks question Message-ID: <200012130725.eBD7PDw00450@nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <200012130554.eBD5spr43566@curve.dellroad.org> from "Archie Cobbs" at Dec 12, 2000 09:54:51 PM
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Archie Cobbs wrote: > I have a laptop with 4.1 installed on it and am going to install > a fresh version of 4.2 release. The laptop didn't have the floppy > disk plugged in at the time, so I thought I'd "cheat" and save having > to go find it by doing this: > > $ dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/ad0s1 > $ reboot > > I have no idea whether this is supposed to work or not. In any > case, it didn't. It gets as far as loading /boot/loader and fails. > > So, (purely out of curiousity) why didn't this work? It should work; works here, though I used an older boot.flp. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com rnordier@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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