Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:01:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Charlie Sorsby <crs@hgo.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 Installation Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419220008.8564S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804192116.RAA00317@quail.hgo.net>
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Charlie Sorsby wrote: > During installation, at the X configuration part of the process, I > was asked it I wanted the XF86Setup approach and tried it. Well, > when it said "... This may take a while." it did--and then instead > of putting me into XF86Setup or giving me a second chance at > selecting XF86config, it jumped to the screen that asks if I want > to browse the package collection! This is a known bug in 2.2.5. > When it got to the point where the boot manager gives a choice, I > was given three choices--alright so far, I thought. The choices > were F1 for W95, F2 for BSD (2.1.5), and F5 for BSD (2.2.5). I > pressed F5 and it actually booted to 2.2.5. Well, I fiddled with > it for a while and then decided to boot back to 2.1.5 for a while > (where X is running). When, later, I tried to boot back to 2.2.5 > the boot manager went into some kind of infinite loop as soon as I > pressed F5, ignoring my F5 presses--well, not exactly, it kept > switching between the two boot managers (that on the second disk > seems only to have two choices (F2 & F5, as I recall). As long as > I pressed F5 or allowed the default to kick in, it kept switching > back and forth. Did you try hitting F2 when you got to the second disk? Hint: You can type `wd(1,a)/kernel' at the Boot: prompt to boot the second disk explicitly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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