Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:50:19 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Dan Strick <dan@math.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more 3.0-RELEASE boot.flp problems Message-ID: <19981018205019.C21657@Alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <2009.908763356@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 07:15:56PM -0700 References: <199810190046.RAA12702@math.berkeley.edu> <2009.908763356@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 07:15:56PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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? 4GB disk (da0), using Fdisk to make 1 partition with 100%. Not using the "Use Entire Disk" option. Using the standard MBR option, the system comes up. > > 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. > > - Jordan > > P.S. to Robert: I *told* you we should have made those prompts > look more different; people are still confusing it with BOOTEASY! :-) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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