From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 13 22:02:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA28459 for current-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:02:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA28446 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:02:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15276(4)>; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:01:40 PST Received: by crevenia.parc.xerox.com id <177476>; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:01:35 -0800 From: Bill Fenner To: current@freebsd.org Subject: My 2.2-BETA install woes are almost over! Message-Id: <97Jan13.220135pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:01:29 PST Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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