[rescue] OpenBSD
Kris Kirby
kris at catonic.net
Wed Jan 30 23:17:02 CST 2002
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, George Adkins wrote:
> are you saying that you did or did-not finally get it to boot off of the hard
> disk (as in functionally booting) as opposed to requiring some cheeseball
> startup floppy to get the system breathing (i.e., not functionally booting).
No, I never got it to boot the right way; the damn thing had a write
protected floppy disk stuck in the drive. really, it only need to load
1-2K from the boot floppy, get the /boot.config, and boot the hard drive.
> Much appreciated. Let him know that a hardcore FreeBSD user is having to
> boot off of old cd's in order to do a proper install.
He didn't know it was gone. :(
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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
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