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Date:      Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:25:11 +0200 (SAST)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        archie@dellroad.org (Archie Cobbs)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot blocks question
Message-ID:  <200012130725.eBD7PDw00450@nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012130554.eBD5spr43566@curve.dellroad.org> from "Archie Cobbs" at Dec 12, 2000 09:54:51 PM

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Archie Cobbs wrote:
 
> I have a laptop with 4.1 installed on it and am going to install
> a fresh version of 4.2 release. The laptop didn't have the floppy
> disk plugged in at the time, so I thought I'd "cheat" and save having
> to go find it by doing this:
> 
>   $ dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/ad0s1
>   $ reboot
> 
> I have no idea whether this is supposed to work or not. In any
> case, it didn't. It gets as far as loading /boot/loader and fails.
> 
> So, (purely out of curiousity) why didn't this work?
 
It should work; works here, though I used an older boot.flp.

-- 
Robert Nordier

rnordier@nordier.com
rnordier@FreeBSD.org


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