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Date:      Mon, 02 Nov 1998 06:34:19 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing (Last one for tonight) 
Message-ID:  <199811021434.GAA10836@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 09:52:11 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811020951180.454-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> > You forgot to copy boot2 from/to the same location.  This will lead to 
> > a mild disaster (although you can boot the install kernel, not change 
> > the floppy so the mfsroot.gz load fails, and it will come up using the 
> > harddisk as root).
> 
> In my locally built snapshot, boot2 has been renamed to loader so this bit
> worked fine.

Whoops, that's right, there's only one bootstrap component that's read 
out of the filesystem.  *slap*

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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