From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 10 19:28:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8040314C03 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA14863; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 22:29:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907110229.WAA14863@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: 3.2-RELEASE Installation problems In-Reply-To: from bahwi at "Jul 9, 99 11:44:23 pm" To: bahwi@technologist.com (bahwi) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 22:29:55 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bahwi wrote, > I am installing FreeBSD on a friend's computer, we are having two > problems. > > First of all, we can not install over ppp because ppp gives this error > "Phase: Unexpected protocol 0x00fd (1st choice compression)" > and nothing happens. The dns will go fine, and it will log into > ftp.freebsd.org, and then stop. No more traffic is sent. The service is > prodigy but the ip address is always splitrock.net. Anyone have any ideas? No help there. Sorry. > Second, from the failed installation the boot manager was installed, and > when the machine boots up it has three options. F1 - DOS F2 - FreeBSD > and F5 - Disk 0 > To get to windows or freebsd(even though freebsd boot-up will fail since > there is nothing there) you must go through F5, anyone have any ideas or > ways to fix this? I had the exact same problem on a machine at work. What I eventually did was go to the -CURRENT boot blocks (just the boot blocks, the rest of the system is 3.2-STABLE). They give many more options, some really |<00l options too, and solved my 'Disk 0' problem. Robert Nordier, one of the developers, has the new blocks at, http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot0.tar.gz And thanks again to Robert for helping me with my problems and his work for FreeBSD. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message