From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 10:41:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B537E14CCB for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:41:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990318184200.MQLK682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:42:00 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "morel" Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:41:02 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 Gripes Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <000001be708c$f6e6b640$0a000064@iris> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990318184200.MQLK682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17 Mar 99, at 10:43, morel wrote: > I have been running 2.2.7 for a while and been satisfied with it, so I > decided to try out 3.1. It will not install via ATAPI cdrom. I tried on my > dual cpu Tyan Tomcat with Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller and it worked with > the SCSI cdrom, but the cd would not boot, giving a kernel missing error. > Also if you umount the cdrom from the /cdrom directory, then try to cd /, > the OS gives a page fault and hard crashes (Very Bad !!!!!!) I think those > software vikings that hacked the new OS aught to be fed to the crabs! You > had a great OS, why did you have to go and screw it up? Perhaps next time, you could just ask for help instead of complaining. I have no idea what caused the problems you encountered. I've always found that people are willing to help anyone if the request for help is politely phrased. FWIW: I do vaguely recall seeing a problem similar to yours. Umm, the CD- ROM problem boot I mean. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message