cant boot 6-current sesnap

Søren Lott soren3 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 16:38:48 PST 2004


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:15:46 -0500, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

the 6.0-CURRENT-20041123-SESNAP.iso surely don't have a /boot/cdboot.
this looking from the loader cmd, neither display the  welcome/boot option
menu and goes straight from the btx loader to the "insert floppy" msg.

cheers.
SL.


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