From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 12 15:51:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02550 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02526 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:51:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA13243 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:48:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199810122248.AAA13243@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: BETA problems... To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:48:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I just tried to install the newest BETA on current.freebsd.org on a friend's computer. It worked, let's say, less then satisfactory. Somehow the installation got messed up, but the main problem was that he had two IDE drives. Both set to master, on separate comntrollers. On wd0 he had Window and on wd2 he wanted FreeBSD... That, however, was not much to FreeBSD's liking. At the "boot:" prompt, it would find the kernel at bios unit 1, but for some inane reason it fails to recognize that the disk is NOT wd1, but wd2. So you would manually have to enter "1:wd(2,a)kernel" or it would assume "1:wd(1,a)kernel", and panic when trying to mount root. Why is this, and shouldn't it be fixed? _Is_ it fixed in new boot code, perhaps? Also, just a small thing that peeved me... it took forever for the installtion to get both telnet/rlogin and rt-ld in, so you could do something useful on ttyv3 (like catch up on your FreeBSD mail on the server). All aout libs and such went in first. NOT really a a big thing I know... :-) /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message