Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:48:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BETA problems... Message-ID: <199810122248.AAA13243@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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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
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