Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 19:43:08 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers), phk@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: New "release candidate floppies" available Message-ID: <5868.802320188@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jun 95 20:07:08 EDT." <m0sIPhE-0006QWC@bagend.atl.ga.us>
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> This floppy set does not crash when I request no MBR writing. > However, it has done something stranger still. Upon rebooting > after the install, I do not get the OS/2 BM screen, I get a > cleared screen and then "Strike a key to reboot". To recover Hmmm. To be honest, I'm not sure what happens in that case! I would have thought that libdisk would have left the MBR boot area completely untouched, but evidently not! I only call Set_Boot_Mgr() if I want to touch the boot area, and then I use only "bteasy17" or "mbr". I also reset the MBR pointer after I do it the first time, so only the _first_ disk is touched this way. I've looked at the code and it looks fine, so I can only conclude that something (for once! :-) is happening outside of sysinstall. I'll let Poul comment. > The dict set claimed to install okay but anything I tried to > install after that claimed 80% residual from dict failing... but That's actually "0x80", not "80%" :-). It's more useful to me than to you - it tells me the bit mask of distributions left over, which in this case is DIST_INFO. That's a known bug, and fixed! > All attempts to install packages from the install menu complained > that I had no CDROM installed. I do have a SB16/Panasonic 563 Hmmm. Interesting! It should have found the CD! I will go look into this. > And, on the main menu ... why Commit? There is already a "c" on > the menu... how about "install"? Because I wanted to make it plain that they were really about to _write_ on the disk. It goes hand-in-hand with the doc. Also, I don't necessarily want people to be able to type it _too_ easily! ;-) Jordan
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