From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 4:41: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3AA150B8 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 04:40:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24935; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:40:44 +0800 (WST) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:40:44 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 3.x problems In-Reply-To: <28895.943878275@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: X-no-archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Um... So you first upgraded from source and then from CDROM? The CDROM > installation would have taken care of updating /etc for you but the > source upgrade would not have. /etc wasn't the problem there. In the upgrade case, it refused to boot at all, claiming the root filesystem went beyond cylinder 1024 and is not bootable. Weird, 2.2.8 doesn't display that behaviour. :-( > I believe a batch of CD's went out which wouldn't boot on ATAPI CDROM > drives. The release notes for 3.3-RELEASE discuss this at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.3R/errata.html Yes, this would be the exact problem. That URL does go onto say that Walnut Creek will replace them. So, I'll contact them directly... > I note that you didn't send any more detailed error messages. I know > that your one problem (the compat22 distribution issue) may well have > caused other problems, which is why I asked for more context for the > error messages. > > Obviously, if that one issue solved your other problems, then there's > nothing more to discuss. So are you up and running? :-) Yes, thanks. :-) I now have 3.2 running, and more importantly, running the packages I need. :-) Many thanks. Regards, d. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message