Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:57:30 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: cliff@raggedclown.net (Cliff Sarginson) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2 Boot. Should i report a bug? Message-ID: <200012181757.eBIHvZU05111@nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <E1481Ha-0004Tq-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net> from "Cliff Sarginson" at Dec 18, 2000 02:28:54 PM
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Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello, > Well I have posted a few times, and a few other people have as well, > but so far no solution is forthcoming to the following: > > I have a Tulip Pentium 90 test machine. > I have installed bootable versions of various Linux'es and > BSD 4.0 on it many times without any problem. > > I have tried every which way to install 4.2 and to have it use > the FBSD boot manager .. totally without success. This included > installing boot "by hand" using bootcfg. I have tried DD, and without > DD. > > Note.. > - I can boot it via the CDROm and by selecting the kernel on the HD > - I can boot it if I tell the installation program to use the MBR > - I can boot it via LILO > - I can boot it if I install grub. > > But it simply does not want to work with the standard boot mechanism. > > Is this a bug ? > I can supply precise details of m/c configuration if required. Speaking as an author/maintainer of the i386 boot code: It's probably not a bug: most similar cases have turned out to be pilot error. Your best course would probably be to get some good help on -questions. Incidentally, I don't know why so many people keep asking about elementary boot stuff on -stable, but if you're confused about an installation issue, -stable is really not the place to go looking for answers. Send in a PR if you wish, though, and I'll look at it. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com rnordier@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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