From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 17:56:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B85B16A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:56:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail814.megamailservers.com (mail814.carrierinternetsolutions.com [69.49.106.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C498543D31 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:56:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) X-POP-User: runkel.covad.net Received: from mist.nodomain (h-67-101-99-221.snfccasy.dynamic.covad.net [67.101.99.221])i8MHutnR031241; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:56:55 -0400 Received: from mist.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mist.nodomain (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8MHus4p000462; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:56:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mist.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by mist.nodomain (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i8MHusL6000461; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:56:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:56:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200409221756.i8MHusL6000461@mist.nodomain> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: swhetzel@gmail.com cc: dan@mist.nodomain cc: nate@root.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1 bootstrap failures X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:56:57 -0000 Booting 3.5-BETA5-i386-disc2 in "safe mode" worked, but the system did not seem to see my floppy disk drive and consequently I was unable to copy my dmesg and pciconf output anywhere. With some extra effort, I might be able to transfer the stuff via a hard disk partition. Is there any useful diagnostic information that I might produce for anyone? Dan Strick strick@covad.net P.S. It would be convenient if /mnt2/rescue and such directories were also in the fixit mode search path. It would also be useful if there were man pages available (on the disc2 "live filesystem"). I am not yet familiar with release 5.x quirks and when my system is running one of the 3.5-BETA5-i386 installation systems it can't be running something else from which I could access the 5.x man pages.