Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:54:00 -0500 (CDT) From: stuart nichols <unstable@stac.state.tx.us> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Boot floppy partitioning bug. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0108281637050.64779-100000@vixie.stac.state.tx.us>
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Today's (2001-Aug-28) -STABLE, booting from the floppies for a network install: Custom install, select Partition. Spacebar on one drive and press A for All. Quit. Take default BootMgr, Enter. Arrow down to next drive, spacebar, press A, Quit. Select default boot manager, Enter. Back to drive select menu. So far so good. Pressing Enter at this point does not return you back to the Custom Installation menu. It de-selects or re-selects the drive that is currently high-lighted, just like pressing the spacebar. If you first arrow over to Cancel, then back to OK, however, then pressing Enter gives the expected return to the Custom Installation menu. I tried this several times, and verified that if you arrow over to Cancel first, then back to OK after setting the drive partitions, it will work properly, otherwise you are in a loop of some sort. There was a perhaps-related problem in the Aug-24 -STABLE boot floppies where pressing Enter after setting the partitions sent me back up to the Custom Installation menu, but also removed the currently-highlight drive (as if spacebar, then Enter, had been pressed). I only tried this once, so I don't know how repeatable it was. I had those floppies laying on the desk this morning, saw that problem as I was testing a machine, then over- wrote them with today's boot floppies when I was getting ready to actually build the machine. -- stu unstable@stac.state.tx.us Office: (512) 463-7601 FAX: (512) 475-4759 stuart nichols State Technology Assessment Center Texas Department of Information Resources 300 West 15th Street Austin TX 78744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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