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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 ...

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
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