Subject: Re: replace boot blocks on Soekris 4801
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/04/2006 22:06:23
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:59:03PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> David Laight wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 02:52:00PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > > 
> > > I copied /boot and /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 from my 2.0 box, and ran
> > > installboot(8):
> > 
> > Why the versions from a 2.0 box?
> 
> Oh, maybe because I'm confused?  
> 
> >From a brief conversation with Christos, I (mis?)understood that there's
> something wrong with /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 and/or /boot in 3.0.  I take
> it from your surprise that there's nothing wrong with them per se, but
> rather that they were somehow installed without setting the console to
> com0.  I can still restore the 3.0 files.  Is that your advice? 

It is my guess as to what happened...

	David

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