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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1996-10-28 22:38:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1996-10-28 22:38:04 +0000 |
| commit | 3f87b3611fea008b846c0f2183cfeb75818ccd7a (patch) | |
| tree | 73b9937f1b5cb72e97c82d683ce287a00860a79a /distrib/notes/i386 | |
| parent | f3ffc6965739823761d8fbdeabfc1749891e8f12 (diff) | |
Add note about corrupt inst floppies. This happened to my officemate
who hit the power button instead of halting so corrupted the floppy.
Diffstat (limited to 'distrib/notes/i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/i386/install | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/install b/distrib/notes/i386/install index 8255c0019e3..45d6190b0c5 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/i386/install +++ b/distrib/notes/i386/install @@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ getting OpenBSD installed on your hard disk. If any question has a default answer, it will be displayed in brackets ("[]") after the question. If you wish to stop the installation, you may hit Control-C at any time, but if you do, you'll have to begin the installation -process again from scratch. +process again from scratch. If, at any point, the kernel panics +with "ffs_valloc" your inst floppy is probably corrupted. You +should make a new inst floppy or fsck your existing one (if you can). Boot your machine using of the appropriate kernel-copy floppy. When presented with the boot prompt (the prompt begins with |