Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:13:25 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 failure on 164LX Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011161112480.9657-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200011161904.eAGJ4Mf48976@vashon.polstra.com>
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> In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011161059350.9657-100000@zeppo.feral.com>, > Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote: > > > > > > A question: if the floppy had read errors, would they be detected > > > and reported? I.e., is it worthwhile to try a different diskette? > > > > No, SRM does complain about bad diskettes. At least the Multia one does all > > the time. > > But does /boot/loader complain about read errors after it gets > control? No- but it calls back into SRM, and SRM should complain to the console. > > > What I had been thinking of is taking boot.flp and copying all 3MB > > to the head of a SCSI or IDE disk and booting that on your 164LX. > > Hrm, I'd love to help but I don't think I can take it quite that far. > :-( Okay. Whatever you can do. We suck right now. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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