Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:11:55 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Alex Burke <alexjeffburke@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD STABLE <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0BETA1 - Oddness with install floppies Message-ID: <20050723141155.GA706@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> In-Reply-To: <a8b8bb51050723065834e2ac0b@mail.gmail.com> References: <a8b8bb51050723065834e2ac0b@mail.gmail.com>
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Alex Burke wrote: >I was trying to boot a system from the installation floppies, and >after the kernel booted it dropped me out into a mountroot prompt. I >am posative its not meant to do this, it should start sysinstall. >I am not exactly sure what to do from here on, should i specify >ufs:da0s1a...would that be the location of the memory disk? There were no ATA timeout messages? Otherwise, this would indicate that the nasty ATA bugs are on 6.0 still. I have (on 5.4-stable) to try a boot several times until the kernel properly recognizes my drive, and it dumps me in the mount root prompt when it doesn't. mkb.
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