Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 15:12:22 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net> Subject: Re: argh^2 Message-ID: <XFMail.981107151222.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <11901.910463149@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard, On 07-Nov-98 you wrote: > > - The bit about not making the root disk bootable still isn't fixed > > yet. > > I had to boot off the floppy and fix it manually. > > Sorry, could you refresh my memory - you're saying we need to set a > partition active, or something? I'm not sure what the problem is > here. Last I checked, disklabel needed to be done (again) AFTER the newfs was done, and /boot did not get populated from /usr/mdec. But this knowledge is a week old. > Also, just curious: Is the kern.flp working correctly now in that it > prompts for and correctly loads the mfsroot, then boots? If not, I > still need to beat on the load script. Last I checked it did. > > - To my surprise, the sysinstall partitioning phase did not find the > > old NetBSD partitions on the disk. The reason I find this surprising > > Didn't they just change to 0xA9 or something? FreeBSD's view of the > disk is determined solely by libdisk, so if it's out of sync with the > kernel's own partition search order, that's something to look into. FreeBSD can see, fsck and mount digital Unix partitions. > > - The sysinstall screen still gets the colors wrong. > > Hmmm. This should still be fixed, but even once it is we can perhaps > stick with the same color scheme just to differentiate the alpha > install? :-) Yup, yup, yup... Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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