Re: cant boot 6-current sesnap

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:15:46 -0500
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 12:05 pm, Søren Lott wrote:
> hi,
> probably the dumbest question ever,
> but i'm not being able to boot a sesnap 6-current SESNAP cdrom,
> the loader keeps asking about a floppy with the kernel image
> since this machine does not have a floppy disk, i try setting
> kernel=/kernel.gz.boot (in the cdrom) from the loader cmd. it fail
> saying that don't know how to load it.

kernel.gz.boot is not a full kernel but just the first few kilobytes of a 
compressed kernel.  Is the SESNAP machine not using cdboot to boot?  5.x and 
beyond don't support using floppy images for CD booting anymore, just 
using /boot/cdboot.

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Received on Wed Nov 24 2004 - 17:15:55 UTC

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