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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0a install: Yuck!
Date: 22 Nov 1994 16:55:28 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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Message-ID: <3at7q0$2cs@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <3adv8i$dqh@Germany.EU.net> <3aggef$br1@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <JKH.94Nov17185933@freefall.cdrom.com> <3asest$5pp@hdxu03.telecom.ptt.nl>
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In article <3asest$5pp@hdxu03.telecom.ptt.nl>,
Ben Suurmeijer <ben@hdpd1232.telecom.ptt.nl> wrote:
>- When booting, the machine is looking for /386bsd but it should look
>  for /kernel, or am I doing something wrong?

You must be using the older bootblocks.  As was pointed out in previous
articles, you need to (W)rite the label to the disk, which should cause
the bootblocks to be written as well.

This is supposedly fixed in 2.0R, which was announced last night.


Nate
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