Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:14:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007211413200.8451-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <5176.964213976@localhost>
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> > The presumption here is that sysinstall is mounting the wrong disk. This has > > nothing to do with preservation of old data. > > Well, I'm still not sure how sysinstall could "mount the wrong disk" > unless you explicitly told it to do so or major/minor devices are broken > so badly that /dev/sd0a actually points to SCSI disk #2 rather than #1 > on your system (which I kinda doubt). > > When you actually come up, mounting the right disk as root is more of > a loader issue and setting your root device properly; it has nothing > to do with sysinstall. Uh- this is *after* the terminal type question is asked. Is that question asked prior to mounting root? > > > On isaac.nas.nasa.gov, putting boot.flp on the *second* disk, I ran into the > > 'going nowhere w/o my init' problem as soon as I selected a terminal type. > > NetBSD was installed on the first && third disks. > > I really don't know what you mean by "putting boot.flp on the second > disk" - you mean you dd'd the boot.flp image straight onto the > beginning of your SCSI drive? I'm getting even more confused. Of course. That's the way to take a 2MB image and try and install from it? I mean, I don't have any 2MB floppy drives. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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