Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 18:51:52 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: thankhuu@cco.caltech.edu Cc: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation update Message-ID: <199607141851.SAA04016@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960713214740.29438B-100000@piccolo> (message from Thanh Khuu on Sat, 13 Jul 1996 21:56:02 -0700 (PDT))
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>>>>> Thanh Khuu <thankhuu@cco.caltech.edu> writes: > > So it WAS my ATI Mach64 that was causing the blanking of the screen. So > I disabled si0-3 and it installed. But as James Raynard told me, there > is a bug in the 2.1 boot installation and it didn't boot correctly. So I > manually installed boot.bin and that worked too. However, when I chose > FreeBSD it gave me a > panic: cannot mount root > or something to that extent. What now? I don't seem to be having much success with boot blocks at the moment. :-( A simple way round this is to use the install floppy to boot from, then type in wd(1,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. (The first letter is 'w' if you have 2 IDE disks, 's' if you have 2 SCSI disks and 'h' if you have one of each). > By the way, when I boot it gives me the same boot screen as when i did > from the floppy to install it and I have to use the -c option again to > disable everything again. Do I have to do that everytime I boot? I > certainly hope not. The kernel should save the changes after you boot with -c, so you should only need to do it once. Alternatively, read the instructions in the Handbook on how to make a customised kernel which has only what you need in it. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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