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From: jk7023@CNSVAX.ALBANY.EDU (Jaime)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: problem with i386 port
Date: 1 Jan 1996 21:26:51 GMT
Organization: University of Albany, SUNY
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> I'd love to use copy_kernel. The problem is, it never seems to have
>that command installed. When I re-boot (after a halt command) it doesn't seem
> I've manually mounted a kernal disk in the second drive. I try to cp
>the whole kern/, but it doesn't like the file "rootdev" very much. In fact,
>ls -asl doesn't even like it. What is this file supposed to be doing? Why
>doesn't a simple cp work? Where can I get copy_kernel from?
OK, my situation is now:
I found the copy_kernel script by mounting a kernel floppy in the
second disk drive. It _still_ wouldn't run, for some reason. But I looked at
it and guessed that all it did (if there were no errors on the disk, etc.) was
to copy /netbsd to the root partition's /. So I did this manually.
Now, when I boot from the hard drive, the file "init" seems to be
giving the system some kind of problem. This leads to a dump and eventual
rebooting of the system.
All help still appreciated,
Jaime