Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:21:40 -0000 From: Kevin Berrien <kblists@comcast.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot Message-ID: <1523970523.1062.6.camel@linuxppc>
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I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled "4.9 install buglet". I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever. To test, I made 3 installs without issue using 4.8. So first, I'd like to confirm the bug report, and ask the following. In his "buglet" post, Ian noted the following work around. > Work around. Force write in label screen (or rewrite MBR > and label post reboot) Looking at fdisk, and the label utility I see nothing option along these lines. Could someone explain to me what/how to do this? Has anyone else seen this apparently prevalent issue? Is a fix likely, or do these kind of things just slip by? I did not expect this from a 'stable' release. Unfortunately, I'm making my second attempt at evaluating FreeBSD (last time I used an active box - and got frustrated with bad ports, MySQL/BSD issues, and needed to get the box online, so I installed something that worked). I'm interested in BSD's lean-ness, and other aspects, as opposed to other "nix'es". Needless to say, testing again using 4.9 this time hasn't been very impressive.
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