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Date:      Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:10:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Larkin <David.Larkin@DJL.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Nick.Hibma@jrc.it
Subject:   Re: Fixit floppy 2.2.5 can't find file boot.conf
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808131309420.11633-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199808121957.MAA29606@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, David Larkin wrote:

> I'm trying to boot the fixit floppy for 2.2.5 but I'm having a problem
> 
> I created a floppy in DOS
> > tools\rawrite floppies\boot.flp
> 
> but when I boot the  floppy I get
> 
> Can't find file 
>         boot.conf
>         boot.help
> 
> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000 ..........
> Boot default: 0:fd(0,a)kernel
> 
> boot:
> Can't find kernel
> 
> I've created 3 floppies, and tried them on 2 machines with same result
> I've also created a boot floppy and that works fine
> 
> Any ideas what's going wrong ?

Redownload the image, for some reason it got past the boot blocks but
that's it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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