Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 17:53:29 -0500 From: "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org> To: "'FreeBSD Questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "'bugtraq@netspace.org'" <bugtraq@netspace.org> Subject: Bug in 2.2.5/2.2.6 Install procedures. Message-ID: <01BD752A.0F8C4890@w3svcs.mfn.org>
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Last week we overwrote a 2.2.5-R box with RedHat 5.0 to experiment. Yesterday we attempted to revert to the original config by doing a full, fresh install of 2.2.5. Unfortunately, (the install kept hanging after the probing completed, leaving only the cursor at the bottom left of the screen (CGA). Since I *know* this machine was running 2.2.5 *last week* and it was running RedHat 5.0 *yesterday*, I figured I had some kind of weird hardware problem. To prove or disprove the theory, I started doing the standard board swapping bit. No effect. Then this morning, for no reason I can put my finger on, I decided to look at the MBR directly. Even tho it should have been wiped out several times over, there was a perfect RedHat written MBR! It appears that the editor supplied with boot.flp chokes when it is presented with an existing linux (or just Redhat?) disk. After deleting the MBR, the install proceeded fine under both 2.2.5 and 2.2.6. The disk is a Conner 1.6gb IDE, the slices were as follows: / 50mb /stand 20mb /var 30mb /mtp 100mb /usr 200mb /local 1000mb (*not* /usr/local) swap 96mb There was a little bit of space intentionally left on this drive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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