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Date:      Sun, 01 Nov 1998 12:30:45 -0500 (EST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject:   Re: Installing (Last one for tonight)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981101123045.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811011148560.406-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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Doug Rabson, On 01-Nov-98 you wrote:

...

>  I've noticed the stuck keyboard effect before too.  I tried a few times
>  yesterday and didn't get that problem.  I had it hang once probing for
>  devices.  After rebooting, I actually managed to install a system to my
>  spare disk.  It worked fairly well apart from the fact that the disk
>  wasn't made bootable and the fstab had entries like da1s1a instead of
>  da1a.  After I fixed those manually, the disk booted and appeared to
>  work
>  well.  This was with a release built around Wednesday last week.

Please elaborate on the ``not made bootable'' part. I finished the install
(like I said elsewhere) and am terrified that it will not reboot (took many
hours to install ftp...)

Simon


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