panic on boot

[Remy Nonnenmacher]

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:58:33PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> "Petr Holub" <hopet at ics.muni.cz> writes:
>>> Despite you couldn't guarantee it, it really helped and it boots now.
>>> I've used the binary loader available from ~kib site and just replaced
>>> it on the original ISO: mdcondifig -> mount ->
>>> tar cf - | (cd elswhere && tar xvpf -) -> replace the loader -> mkisomages.sh
>> You realize that you can simply 'tar xf' an ISO image, instead of
>> jumping through hoops with mdconfig?
> 
> Most FreeBSD users I know of (junior and senior) do not know about
> libarchive(3), nor what's linked to it (tar).  Heck, even *I* didn't
> know it had ISO9660 and ZIP support until I read the manpage; I thought
> it was limited to tar, pax, and cpio archives.
> 

Holly god (or whatever serves). 25 years in CS, started with punch cards 
and learning every day. Great day.

Thanks DES.

RN.
IaM