Subject: Re: Frustration in building install disks...
To: Erich T. Enke <Erich.T.Enke@wheaton.edu>
From: Erik Bertelsen <erik@mediator.uni-c.dk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/29/2000 22:26:31
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 05:22:13PM -0500, Erich T. Enke wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Erich T. Enke wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:59:02PM -0500, Erich T. Enke wrote:
> > > > I can and have been able to build and boot successfully the non-floppy
> > > > install kernel (netbsd.INSTALL.gz) from distrib.  However, every time I:
> > > > 
> > > > dd if=/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/fdset/boot1.fs of=/dev/fd0a bs=36b
> > > > dd if=/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/fdset/boot2.fs of=/dev/fd0a bs=36b
> > > > 
> > > > the computer reboots when finished loading the second disk.
> 
> AHH!  Got it.  Revision 1.21 to
> /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/fdset-common/Makefile.inc needs to be
> uploaded to the 1.5 branch (it was only committed to current).  That
> fixes my problem.
> 

Thank you !

This solves my problem of bootable install CD-Roms rebooting after
loading the kernel.

This should definitely be reviewed for pull-up to 1.5.

- Erik Bertelsen

ps: I added current-users as a receiver to increase the probability that people
working on the 1.5 release will spot this message it and act on it ...