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Date:      Fri, 1 Jan 1999 19:54:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        eischen@vigrid.com, mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, peter@netplex.com.au
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: FLAG DAY COMING (was Re: New aout-to-elf build failures.)
Message-ID:  <199901020054.TAA05145@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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Mike Smith wrote:
> > Thanks for the directions.  This works fine on my laptop with fd drive,
> > but my home system doesn't currently have a floppy drive.  It has a
> > LS120 (wfd) drive and the same floppy doesn't work on it.  It can't
> > find /boot/loader.  I suspect wfd support isn't built into boot2.c
> > yet?
>
> Actually, it *ought* to work at that point.  It wouldn't suprise me if 
> you had trouble booting with the LS120 as the root device, but I can't 
> see why boot2 can't find the loader.  What do you get if you type '?' 
> at the boot: prompt?

I got it to boot by using "0:wd(0,a)/kernel" at the prompt (wd instead
of wfd).  But to answer your question:

  No /boot/loader

  >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
  Default:0:fd(0,a)/kernel
  boot: ?


  >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
  Default:0:fd(0,a)/kernel
  boot: 

nothing happens when you type '?'.

At first I thought it wasn't working at all because it wouldn't boot
from fd0 nor wfd0, so I didn't think to try wd0 or even da0 (my system
drive, which it'll boot also).

Dan Eischen
eischen@pcnet.com

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