From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 12:46: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CFE37B422 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA65469; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200008301945.MAA65469@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Possible bug in FreeBSD Boot Manager on 4.1? In-Reply-To: from Alex Moore at "Aug 30, 2000 02:48:23 pm" To: Alex Moore Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Moore wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Setup: > 2x 450Mhz Processors > 1x Compaq Smart Array Controller 221 (v3.22) > 2x 9.1 GB - Mirrored > FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE > > Hi, > > I have the above system. I first tried to install 4.0. This booted with > the Boot Manager menu, pressing F1 loaded the BTX Loader stage. At this > point it failed to load the kernel stating "no bootable kernel". After > playing around with it for a time and after managing to get hold of 4.1 CD's > I installed 4.1. Yes, boot0 in 4.1 is broken. Please check the ERRATA. I think I put the notice up in the ERRATA last week. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message