Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 17:50:32 -0800 From: scottl@ix.netcom.com (scott long) To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: 0210-SNAP Message-ID: <199503110150.RAA05672@ix2.ix.netcom.com>
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Please forgive me if I'm harping on known bugs. I think that the 0210 snapshot is excellent, but here are a few things that I noticed that might improve the 2.1 release: (btw, I have a U.S.Logic notebook, 486DX4-75, quantum IDE 244MB, 4MB ram, CT65540 color video, APM 1.1) 1: The bootmanager that can be installed from the fdisk program (on the 'boot' floppy) is flakey... I cannot always use the keyboard when the BSD boot prompt comes up, although the keyboard is active after the kernel gets loaded. MS-DOS shows no effects. Using os-bs 1.35 cured this. 2: The disklabel from the 'boot' floppy writes the fstab so that the MSDOS partition (wd0f) is mounted before the /usr partition (wd0e). This causes problems if the MS-DOS code is an LKM (get errors of 'ld not found') 3: The lnc0 probe in the kernel reboots the system. I don't own any hardware that could use this driver, but it made installing the system a pain. 4: I don't know if the APM code is supposed to work, but the section of the attach code that queries the system for an apm 1.1 link reboots the system. Commenting this out cured it, but I am stuck with a 1.0 link =-(. Other than that, it seems to work great! Hope this is helpfull! Thank you for all the effort, and I can't wait to see 2.1! Scott Long
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