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/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =3D http://www.FreeBSD.org
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