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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: [386BDS]: Infinite boot loop after applying Beta patches
Message-ID: <1992Oct22.133522.29035@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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References: <1992Oct22.030310.19714@massey.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 13:35:22 GMT
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Glen Eustace (G.Eustace@massey.ac.nz) wrote:
: > but I really want to get things going correctly.
: 
: Ooops.  No such luck.  After booting from the fixit floppy, I was
: apply to mv in the old kernel but on rebooting the problem re-occurs.
: I'm wondering if it could be the new 'ifconfig' that's the problem.
May be it is due to corrupted bootblock.
Get a new one using disklabel -w -r 
or just use dd to copy wdboot to /dev/wd0d

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Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
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