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From: d88-jwn@po.nada.kth.se (Johan Wåhlin)
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Subject: Re: Trouble building FreeBSD-1.1-BETA bootblocks
Date: 21 Mar 1994 14:23:42 GMT
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Bill "This is a close-up?!" Paul (wpaul@panix.com) wrote:

:...
: The problem: I can't seem to compile a working set of bootblocks. The
: ones which came with the installation work fine, but when I attempt to
: compile my own, they fail to work. After running disklabel with the
:...

For what its worth: me neither.

I wanted to make it boot the kernel from a second SCSI disk instead of
the default wd. It took me several hours before I realized that it was
not me that had f*d up the thing 8/.
/Johan