From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 18:47:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA12297 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA12291 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id cb27285; 16 Jul 96 2:40 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa06766; 14 Jul 96 22:37 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA04016; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 18:51:52 GMT Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 18:51:52 GMT Message-Id: <199607141851.SAA04016@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: thankhuu@cco.caltech.edu CC: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Thanh Khuu on Sat, 13 Jul 1996 21:56:02 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: installation update Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Thanh Khuu writes: > > So it WAS my ATI Mach64 that was causing the blanking of the screen. So > I disabled si0-3 and it installed. But as James Raynard told me, there > is a bug in the 2.1 boot installation and it didn't boot correctly. So I > manually installed boot.bin and that worked too. However, when I chose > FreeBSD it gave me a > panic: cannot mount root > or something to that extent. What now? I don't seem to be having much success with boot blocks at the moment. :-( A simple way round this is to use the install floppy to boot from, then type in wd(1,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. (The first letter is 'w' if you have 2 IDE disks, 's' if you have 2 SCSI disks and 'h' if you have one of each). > By the way, when I boot it gives me the same boot screen as when i did > from the floppy to install it and I have to use the -c option again to > disable everything again. Do I have to do that everytime I boot? I > certainly hope not. The kernel should save the changes after you boot with -c, so you should only need to do it once. Alternatively, read the instructions in the Handbook on how to make a customised kernel which has only what you need in it. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/