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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:45:50 -0800
From:      "Marc Kaufman" <marckauf@Adobe.COM>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.2RC1 hosed on AS1200
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At 02:25 PM 11/15/00 -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

 >Can you try the following work-around:

 >Go get the 4.0-RELEASE boot floppy.  Mount it.  Copy off /boot/loader
 >Mount the 4.2 floppy.  Replace /boot/loader with the one from 4.0.
 >Attempt booting your 1200.  Is there any improvement?

I started some time ago by getting the 4.0 Release CD. I could not
boot either from the CD directly, or from the 4.0 floppies. Same
symptoms as with 4.2.

I will try Matthew Jacob's suggestion if I can and get back to you all.
 > If you have the
 > ability, on a separate system, to dd the boot.flp (kern.flp && 
mfsroot.flp in
 > one 3MB image) onto the first sectors of the disk you'd install on the 
AS1200,
 > you can try that as an install path.

Marc



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