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From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To: 'wildcardus freakis' <wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us>,
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Subject: RE: AGAIN 3.1-RELEASE and boot.flp
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:45:21 -0500
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Are you sure the floppy is free of errors?  I had a similar problem with the
3.0 boot floppy and it turned out that the floppy had bad sectors.  Run a
good old fashioned format on the disk if you're not sure.
-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	wildcardus freakis [SMTP:wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us]
> Sent:	Friday, February 19, 1999 1:55 PM
> To:	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	AGAIN 3.1-RELEASE and boot.flp
> 
> 
> Sorry haven't gotten ANY messages from Freebsd-questions which is
> wierd...cause usually I'm flooded...So I'm reposting.
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> tried someones idea of typing "boot" but to no help...
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> I have a clean 2.1G drive and it's a p-133 it doesn't have duel partitions
> or anything...I want to dangerously dedicate this machine to FreeBSD.
> 
> The prompt is:
> >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
> Default:  0:fd(0,a)/kernel
> boot:
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> As I stated below I have tried /kernel, /kernel.gz, /mfsroot, /mfsroot.gz,
> and now I have tried boot, show, and ?
> all I get is:
> No kernel
> No mfsroot
> No Show 
> No Boot
> or Invalid format
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> 
> Thanks
> SAsha
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> > 	Cool...I dl'd the 3.1-RELEASE floppies and am now sitting in front
> > of a boot prompt...I read the README.TXT with the floppies and it says
> > nothing about booting options/variables/etc....
> > 
> > I tried the usual method 0:fd(0,a)/kernel
> > 				  /kernel.gz
> > 				  /mfsroot
> > 				  /mfsroot.gz
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> > so...(for lack of better formulation of a question) What do I type next?
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> > This is the way the world ends
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> > Not with a Bang, but with a whimper.
> 


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