Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:01:29 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: My 2.2-BETA install woes are almost over! Message-ID: <97Jan13.220135pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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I went thru the 2.2-BETA sysinstall for what I hope is the last time tonight. I had selected "dangerously dedicated" 6 times ago when I first partitioned the disk, and just entered and quit the partitioning menu the other 5 times. I'm installing on sd1, and when I finally rebooted to try my new install, I ended up with F1 DOS F5 Disk 2 and F5 just gave me the same prompt again, e.g. it couldn't boot. I booted the fixit floppy and ran fdisk, but the partition was marked as active. So I poked around, found /usr/mdec/boot[12] on the installed partition (should these be on the fixit floppy in an obvious place?) and ran "disklabel -B ...", and now I can boot my new installation (hooray!). I hope that this was due to the fact that I selected "standard" boot manager when I should have selected "none", as opposed to a required part of installation in "Dangerously Dedicated" mode. I have to say that DD mode is significantly improved since 2.2-ALPHA since it actually installed a usable partition table and modulo having to fix the boot blocks, worked perfectly the first time. Now off to fix the broken XF86 install... Bill
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