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Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.8 can't load fixit disk 
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>Number:         11720
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD 2.2.8 can't load fixit disk
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 14 21:50:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Sat Aug 5 15:13:23 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Sat Aug 05 15:13:52 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Oliver Crow
>Release:        2.2.8-RELEASE, 2.2.8-STABLE
>Organization:
UC Berkeley
>Environment:
FreeBSD gecko.bmrc.berkeley.edu 2.2.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Fri Mar 19 17:55:18 GMT 1999 ocrow@gecko.bmrc.berkeley.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/CURRENT  i386

>Description:
This is a confirmation of essentially the same information already supplied
in these bug reports:
i386/8435
i386/9244

Booting from the boot floppy then trying to launch the fixit floppy fails.
It is not possible to get a fixit shell.
In the message console (console 2), a message appears after attempting 
to load the fixit floppy: "mount msdosfs: bad bpb"

The problem appears to occur in 2.2.8-RELEASE and 2.2.8-STABLE.
I have tested with 2 different machines and 2 sets of floppy disk media.

>How-To-Repeat:
Following the instructions for booting the fixit floppy, boot from the
boot floppy (boot.flp), then select the menu option "Fixit", then select
"Floppy".  Sysinstall then repeatedly prompts for the fixit.flp, but
does not start a new shell.

>Fix:
A work around is to use 3.1-RELEASE floppies -- kern.flp, mfsroot.flp 
and fixit.flp, which seem to work fine.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: nbm 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 5 15:13:23 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Ther'll be no more 2.2.x releases, and the PR states that 3.x releases 
work. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=11720 
>Unformatted:
