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From: Stormy@StormCloud.MsState.EDU (Stormy Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0R boot kernel question
Date: 26 Nov 1994 00:18:25 GMT
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Alan F Lundin wrote:
When I boot now from the hard disk, everything goes fine until
it asks for the cpio floppy, but is unable to read it.
The debug screen just says "gunzip input/output error".
There is a message on the install screen, but it goes away
far too fast to read, that looks like a fd driver debug line.
The floppy then becomes unavailable in any fashion until
I do a hardware reset, at which time the controller recognises
it again. I'm using a Bt445S SCSI controller and the
floppy controller on it for the single floppy drive I have.
So, I guess the question is, "Is the kernel installed
on the hard disk from the boot floppy, the same as the
kernel booted from on the boot floppy?"
FTP the cpio disk again, in case it got corrupted during the fetch, and make
sure to use binary.
Also, whenever I do an <ESC><ESC> from either the boot
floppy install, or from the 2nd phase install (sysinstall?),
it reboots the machine. Do I not undersand something
fundamental here?
As the readme says, pressing ESC twice will abort the installation.
Be happy...
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