Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 05:50:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: jst@ccnext.ucsf.EDU (J.) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot bugs, bug reporting. Message-ID: <16072.835361431@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jun 1996 03:29:25 PDT." <9606211029.AA17017@ccnext.ucsf.edu>
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Oh yeah, 2 that I missed: > Mounting a DOS partition R/W and writing to it, was coincident with > many files being removed by FSCK on the next reboot, on several > occasions. This was a while ago, and I think there were panics, as well. Don't do that. There are still some nasty bugs in the DOS driver (which effect only certain DOS partition sizes, unfortunately, so it's hard to predict who they'll strike) and this is why we mount it RO by default. > Could not make the VGA Ioctl's work (trying to set 50 line mode). Does > there need to be a different video driver? You need to install an 8x8 font first - see the man page for vidcontrol. Jordan
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