From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 18 9:58:59 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 09:58:57 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nordier.com (c2-dbn-24.dial-up.net [196.34.155.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB3337B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:58:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by nordier.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBIHvZU05111; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:57:35 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from rnordier) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <200012181757.eBIHvZU05111@nordier.com> Subject: Re: 4.2 Boot. Should i report a bug? To: cliff@raggedclown.net (Cliff Sarginson) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:57:30 +0200 (SAST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Cliff Sarginson" at Dec 18, 2000 02:28:54 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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