Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Beattie writes: : > Winner! Much better than my personal favorite of bigbooty.flp. :-) : > : > - Jordan : > : : Then that would make the CD LordWarfen.iso? I had the chance to register john.net way back when. I was going to name the machines warfen.john.net, bigbootee.john.net, smallberries.john.net, etc. I kinda wish I had because now it is too late :-( Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug Barton writes: : But win95 didn't really fix it, it just covered it up. Filenames in : Win9x are still 8.3, but the "OS" provides a translation layer that maps : those 8.3 filenames to long ones. Also, are we sure that fdimage, : running under DOS can handle longer names? But DOS will truncate it. By that point the name has served its purpose and it doesn't matter if it is truncated :-). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jack >writes: > : Today Warner Losh wrote: > : > : > boot.flp288 > : > : The M$ weenies would probably choke on that since they do > : filenames other than 8.3 with smoke and mirrors. > > 8.3 is so archaic these days we shouldn't be bothered with them. It > hasn't been a real restriction since the 3.1 days. Win95, released 5 > years ago, fixed this. But win95 didn't really fix it, it just covered it up. Filenames in Win9x are still 8.3, but the "OS" provides a translation layer that maps those 8.3 filenames to long ones. Also, are we sure that fdimage, running under DOS can handle longer names? Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence, is that possible?" The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Winner! Much better than my personal favorite of bigbooty.flp. :-) Bigboote. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL| ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > Good idea, terrible name. Can't you guys some up with something better? :) AFAIK, the idea is having the name keeping people away from that file. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
Today Warner Losh wrote: > boot.flp288 The M$ weenies would probably choke on that since they do filenames other than 8.3 with smoke and mirrors. -- Jack O'NeillSystems Administrator / Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jack writes: : Today Warner Losh wrote: : : > boot.flp288 : : The M$ weenies would probably choke on that since they do : filenames other than 8.3 with smoke and mirrors. 8.3 is so archaic these days we shouldn't be bothered with them. It hasn't been a real restriction since the 3.1 days. Win95, released 5 years ago, fixed this. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > kern-144.flp > > root-144.flp > > boot-288.flp > > Winner! Much better than my personal favorite of bigbooty.flp. :-) > > - Jordan > Then that would make the CD LordWarfen.iso? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Beattie| This email was produced using professional quality, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | standards based software. Users of Microsoft [EMAIL PROTECTED] | products or other substandard software should www.aracnet.com/~beattie | contact the author about receiving a Free upgrade to | FreeBSD or Linux. "FreeBSD: The power to serve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
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Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
> kern-144.flp > root-144.flp > boot-288.flp Winner! Much better than my personal favorite of bigbooty.flp. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Rasmus Skaarup wrote: > > Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > Good idea, terrible name. Can't you guys some up with something better? :) > > kern.flp-> start.flp > mfsroot.flp -> install.flp > > boot.flp-> bigstart.flp >bigdisk.flp ? Or Maybe: kern.144 mfsroot.144 boot.288 or kern-144.flp root-144.flp boot-288.flp Brian Beattie| This email was produced using professional quality, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | standards based software. Users of Microsoft [EMAIL PROTECTED] | products or other substandard software should www.aracnet.com/~beattie | contact the author about receiving a Free upgrade to | FreeBSD or Linux. "FreeBSD: The power to serve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Alex Zepeda was heard blurting out: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Good idea, terrible name. Can't you guys some up with something better? :) > > reallybigbootthing.flp? > How about: isoboot.flp Since it's use is for making bootable cdroms ;-) -- --- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * [EMAIL PROTECTED]and all was /dev/null and *void() --- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
-Original Message- From: Rasmus Skaarup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jordan K. Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 8:19 AM Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2 > >Jordan K. Hubbard said: >> Good idea, terrible name. Can't you guys some up with something better? :) > >kern.flp-> start.flp>>> boot.flp >mfsroot.flp -> install.flp >>> initsys.flp > >boot.flp-> bigstart.flp >>> bootinit.flp > bigdisk.flp ? > >> > Great idea. Would you be able to make the changes locally and test a >> > `make release'? Then all we need to do is pass the patch pass JKH. And I thought this was the objectionable phrase To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
Jordan K. Hubbard said: > Good idea, terrible name. Can't you guys some up with something better? :) kern.flp-> start.flp mfsroot.flp -> install.flp boot.flp-> bigstart.flp bigdisk.flp ? I thought we could rename kern.flp and mfsroot.flp aswell, since they their names don't make much sense to anyone other than the one compiling the darn disks :-) Best regards Rasmus Skaarup > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:32:35PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > > I would be in favor of renaming the boot.flp to something obviously > > > different, like 288boot.flp, to untrain us 2.x heads that got used to the > > > > Great idea. Would you be able to make the changes locally and test a > > `make release'? Then all we need to do is pass the patch pass JKH. > > (harder to say "NO" to working code) > > > > -- > > -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Good idea, terrible name. Can't you guys some up with something better? :) reallybigbootthing.flp? - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
Good idea, terrible name. Can't you guys some up with something better? :) > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:32:35PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > I would be in favor of renaming the boot.flp to something obviously > > different, like 288boot.flp, to untrain us 2.x heads that got used to the > > Great idea. Would you be able to make the changes locally and test a > `make release'? Then all we need to do is pass the patch pass JKH. > (harder to say "NO" to working code) > > -- > -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:32:35PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > I would be in favor of renaming the boot.flp to something obviously > different, like 288boot.flp, to untrain us 2.x heads that got used to the Great idea. Would you be able to make the changes locally and test a `make release'? Then all we need to do is pass the patch pass JKH. (harder to say "NO" to working code) -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Thierry.herbelot wrote: > I had the exact same error message trying to boot from a floppy where I > had tried to dd the full boot.flp (2,8 Megs is just too much for a > normal floppy), instead of kern.flp (and dd does not give error messages > ..) I would be in favor of renaming the boot.flp to something obviously different, like 288boot.flp, to untrain us 2.x heads that got used to the single-floppy installer of yore. :) I still reach for 'boot.flp' and have to kick myself to grab kern/mfsroot instead. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:52:18AM +0100, Thierry.herbelot wrote: > Joe Abley wrote: > > > > Problem report booting 4.0-RELEASE follows. > > > I had the exact same error message trying to boot from a floppy where I > had tried to dd the full boot.flp (2,8 Megs is just too much for a > normal floppy), instead of kern.flp (and dd does not give error messages > ..) Oh, how hideously embarassing. Thank you, Thierry, and please excuse me as I shoot myself in the head. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2
Joe Abley wrote: > > Problem report booting 4.0-RELEASE follows. > > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: yes > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > BIOS 639kB/56256kB available memory > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Wed Mar 15 01:23:43 GMT 2000) > | > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > Booting [kernel]... > /kernel text=0x1d56fe data=0x2f4ca0+0x1a718 zf_read: fill error Hello, I had the exact same error message trying to boot from a floppy where I had tried to dd the full boot.flp (2,8 Megs is just too much for a normal floppy), instead of kern.flp (and dd does not give error messages ..) TfH > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > can't load 'kernel' > no bootable kernel > \ > > Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. > ok > > What does this mean? If this is a -questions question, then please feel > free to flame me privately (just thought it sounded -currentish). If > there are any useful diags I can type, let me know. > > Hardware is 350MHz K6/2, generic-looking Asus motherboard with > integrated video and audio, no-name PCI 10baseT ethernet adapter, > floppy, single 20G IDE disk, 64M RAM. No other peripherals. > > Have tried different floppies. Recent OpenBSD snapshot floppy works > just fine, by way of crude hardware sanity check. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Thierry HerbelotASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS \ / http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot PAS DE HTML DANS X Hiroshima 45, Tchernobyl 86, Windows 95... LES COURRIELS / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
