Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:13:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Subject: Re: Installing (Last one for tonight) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811011709280.367-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981101123045.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Doug Rabson, On 01-Nov-98 you wrote: > > ... > > > I've noticed the stuck keyboard effect before too. I tried a few times > > yesterday and didn't get that problem. I had it hang once probing for > > devices. After rebooting, I actually managed to install a system to my > > spare disk. It worked fairly well apart from the fact that the disk > > wasn't made bootable and the fstab had entries like da1s1a instead of > > da1a. After I fixed those manually, the disk booted and appeared to > > work > > well. This was with a release built around Wednesday last week. > > Please elaborate on the ``not made bootable'' part. I finished the install > (like I said elsewhere) and am terrified that it will not reboot (took many > hours to install ftp...) You need to type something like this before shutting down: # disklabel -B -b /usr/mdec/boot1 /dev/rda0c # cp /usr/mdec/loader /boot # vi /etc/fstab ... remove slice bits from device names ... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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