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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Missing boot.cfg, boot.help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410224921.28437J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804091330.IAA00406@zuhause.mn.org>

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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Bruce Albrecht wrote:

> I just moved all my file systems around, and moved my freebsd root
> partition to a freebsd-only drive (i.e., no partitions, just a
> disklabeled drive).  When I boot, it complains that  boot.cfg and
> boot.help are missing, and I have to hit a return to get it to boot.
> My original root didn't have these files, but I never got such an
> error.

These are parts of the new boot blocks built for 2.2.5.  /boot.help is a
file displayed before the boot: prompt, and /boot.config is a file that
lists the default disk to boot from (i.e., "wd(0,a)/kernel").
Both files are optional.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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