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Date:      Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:53:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot Loader Progress...
Message-ID:  <15038.41224.595755.369957@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3ABE8E49.000033.08638@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
References:  <3ABE8E49.000033.08638@frodo.searchcanada.ca>

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Michael Richards writes:
 > > Yes, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org -- TRUST ME, many of us will try
 > > them and get them committed if they help the situation
 > 
 > Any ideas on the history of this bug? 
 > Has the loader always been broken? 
 > Does it work on any platform or just not my AS1200? 

It's always worked on all platforms except the rawhide (AS1200, AS4000,
AS4100 and the "ultimate workstation" & whitebox versions of the former).

Well, maybe that's too generous; the loader has had serious bugs
before..  Let's just say that _this_ bug has never been seen on any
other platform and has always been seen on this platform.
<...>
 > for the filesystem, or it might be some mis-ported ufs code. Has 
 > anyone been able to get this loader to use the tftp loader to net-
 > boot?

Yes, that's how most new platforms get support.   I can't imagine
creating boot floppies for each boot attempt on a brand new platform
that I don't have proper documentation for.  Ugh.  Diskless booting
is how I do most of my installs here too.  I'm not sure if anybody has
netbooted a rawhide though... Matt?

Drew


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