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Date:      Mon, 02 May 2016 12:27:32 -0500
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot with floppy enabled doesn't.....
Message-ID:  <2a7118792c7b6515652707b6cd308505@thebighonker.lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <3821930.yVTU6xpTBu@ralph.baldwin.cx>
References:  <0b555735ed2b24d5974f2357f3888d05@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <3821930.yVTU6xpTBu@ralph.baldwin.cx>

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On 2016-05-02 11:57, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Saturday, April 30, 2016 10:36:53 PM Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> On a current -CURRENT if my Floppy disk controller and device are
>> ENABLED, we do NOT pass mount root, and the floppy disk
>> light is ON.
>> 
>> If I disable the floppy controller/drive in the BIOS, we boot.
>> 
>> This started after April 18.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what info to gather.
> 
> I recently changed some things in the fdc(4) driver that are the
> first suspect.  You are stuck at the mountroot prompt?  Is your
> root filesystem on the floppy or on something else?
The system does mount root, but never gets to the RC Scripts.  Root is
on ZFS, and NOTHING is in the floppy drive.


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