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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

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