From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 2 06:36:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20573 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:36:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles227.castles.com [208.214.165.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA20566 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:36:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10836; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:34:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811021434.GAA10836@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug Rabson cc: Mike Smith , Simon Shapiro , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing (Last one for tonight) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 09:52:11 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 06:34:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message