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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:36:41 -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.4.21.0011161135490.9657-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200011161935.eAGJZVL49143@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Polstra wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011161112480.9657-100000@zeppo.feral.com>,
> Matthew Jacob  <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > 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.
> 
> I don't know whether this is useful info or not, but the -stable
> from Oct. 31 which is installed on my hard drive boots fine using
> -current's loader.  "Huh?"  OK, I have a dual boot setup with -current
> on da0a and -stable on da0f.  So when I boot, -current's loader always
> gets control.  Then I can make it boot -stable like this:
> 
>     unload
>     set currdev=disk0f
>     boot /kernel
> 
> That works reliably.

Hmm.

-matt




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