From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 14:13:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8C937B479; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:13:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11925; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:13:21 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:13:18 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2RC1 hosed on AS4100 In-Reply-To: <20001116135514.A72650@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At some point David O'Brien wrote, but it's hard to tell because he set's his reply-to so inclusions aren't easy. > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:19:33PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Interesting. Now, we knew that floppies were broken, but something > > between 4.1 && 4.2 broke so that now the boot.flp image freezes and the > > 4100 won't boot. > > I don't understand what you're saying. I have never been able to boot an > AS4100 from floppies or CDROM. I tried both -current and -stable > floppies of the time (2-3 months ago?). You might not remember that in the work I did for 4.1 that the reason I didn't have problems is that I just dd'd boot.flp to a disk and booted that (rather than go through the hell of finding a floppy drive I could cut new floppies on- I have 5-10 that are all in disrepair and don't make readable floppies). -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message