Subject: Re: Frustration in building install disks...
To: Erik Bertelsen <erik@mediator.uni-c.dk>
From: Erich T. Enke <Erich.T.Enke@wheaton.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/27/2000 15:47:20
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.
> >
>
>
> You mean that when booting the disks, the machine just reboots ?
Yep. It loads the
number + number (insert disk 2)
number + ]number
then blam. screen goes blank and reboots.
BTW, what _are_ those numbers anyway?
Erich