From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 18 19:51:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05897 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:51:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles338.castles.com [208.214.167.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05892 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15738; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810190255.TAA15738@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more 3.0-RELEASE boot.flp problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:15:56 PDT." <2009.908763356@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:55:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Conclusion: 3.0-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp is broken. > > Well, it sounds like the new boot manager (which is not BOOTEASY, > even though it looks a bit like it) is in fact broken somehow, > even though it works on my test machines (damn!). Could you tell > us a bit more about whether this was a dedicated/non-dedicated > installation, whether there were other OSes on the disk, etc etc? > > I really would like to continue using the new boot0 since it's > the first time we've had a boot manager for which the sources were > compiliable and maintained under the FreeBSD tree, unlike BOOTEASY > which was a DOS program getting ever more stale under our umbrella. You should mention that Booteasy is still in the tools directory, and that the bootinst tool should be used to install it if boot0 isn't working out. Another Errata item I guess? > P.S. to Robert: I *told* you we should have made those prompts > look more different; people are still confusing it with BOOTEASY! :-) *laugh* -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message