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From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
To: Alex Burke <alexjeffburke@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0BETA1 - Oddness with install floppies
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Alex Burke wrote:

>I was trying to boot a system from the installation floppies, and
>after the kernel booted it dropped me out into a mountroot prompt. I
>am posative its not meant to do this, it should start sysinstall.
>I am not exactly sure what to do from here on, should i specify
>ufs:da0s1a...would that be the location of the memory disk?

There were no ATA timeout messages? Otherwise, this would indicate
that the nasty ATA bugs are on 6.0 still.
I have (on 5.4-stable) to try a boot several times until the kernel
properly recognizes my drive, and it dumps me in the mount root
prompt when it doesn't.

mkb.