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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:15:46 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, =?iso-8859-1?q?S=F8ren_Lott?= <soren3@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: cant boot 6-current sesnap
Message-ID:  <200411241315.46843.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <aa3a7045041124090513a4d1df@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <aa3a7045041124090513a4d1df@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 24 November 2004 12:05 pm, S=F8ren Lott wrote:
> hi,
> probably the dumbest question ever,
> but i'm not being able to boot a sesnap 6-current SESNAP cdrom,
> the loader keeps asking about a floppy with the kernel image
> since this machine does not have a floppy disk, i try setting
> kernel=3D/kernel.gz.boot (in the cdrom) from the loader cmd. it fail
> saying that don't know how to load it.

kernel.gz.boot is not a full kernel but just the first few kilobytes of a=20
compressed kernel.  Is the SESNAP machine not using cdboot to boot?  5.x an=
d=20
beyond don't support using floppy images for CD booting anymore, just=20
using /boot/cdboot.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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