Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:53:13 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? Message-ID: <199812051953.UAA22770@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199812050111.RAA01174@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 4, 98 05:11:20 pm"
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As Mike Smith wrote... > > > Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: > > > > > > load: can't find '/mfsroot' > > > > > > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > > > > Hmmmm. OK, over to Mike at this point - I thought it was supposed > > to find /mfsroot.gz automagically but evidently that's now broken. > > Sure would be nice if we could just work out whether it's going to > > be "magic" or not and just stick to it. :) > > Make sure that you're using an up-to-date /boot/loader, and then try > 'ls' on the floppy in question please. Hi Mike, /boot/loader is approx 2 days old, built from -current. Is that new enough? I get: FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision (jkh@beast.cdrom.com, Wed Nov 25 16:13:25 GMT 1998) Memory: 32768 k /kernel data=0x1e3f40+0x26918 syms=[0x8+0x3f210+0x8+0x25192] Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: load: can't find '/mfsroot' Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel] in 8 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. disk0a:> ls ls: open '/' failed: no such file or directory disk0a:> /mfsroot.gz is on the floppy, on an UFS filesystem written by FreeBSD/x86: same floppy as seen from the x86 box: su-2.01# mount /flop su-2.01# ls -l /flop total 1640 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 835517 Dec 5 20:46 mfsroot.gz su-2.01# Stupid question: can FreeBSD/axp read FreeBSD/x86 UFS filesystems at all? UFS was not designed for portability in this respect if I'm not mistaken. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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