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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




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