Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:53:37 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new snapshot available Message-ID: <20020627215337.D71376@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <p051117afb9416a39d35a@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:46:52PM -0400 References: <20020624043850.J19831@locore.ca> <p051117afb9416a39d35a@[128.113.24.47]>
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Apparently, On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:46:52PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn said words to the effect of; > At 4:38 AM -0400 6/24/02, Jake Burkholder wrote: > >I've uploaded a new snapshot. I encourage everyone to install > >this from scratch, and blow away your old system. The reason > >is that we want to get rid of all the old toolchain cruft that > >you may still have, from before the gcc3.1 import. > > Hmm, when I try to boot of this iso, the boot process seems to > be starting OK, but then after lists out the various devices > that it found (acd0 being the last one), it drops me into a > "mountroot" prompt, asking for the Manual root filesystem > specification. I try things like 'ufs:acd0a', or even 'ufs:ad0a' > (the root partition on the hard disk from the previous install) > but nothing seems to successfully get me past that point. > > I am trying this on an ultra-10, one which I had installed the > previous ISO on. I don't remember hitting this mountroot prompt > at that time. I don't see it in the installation notes for > sparc64. (have those installation notes been updated at all?) > > Is anyone else seeing this? Am I just doing something dumb here? Type boot -C at the loader prompt or cd9660:acd0a at the mountroot prompt. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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