From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 1 09:15:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04717 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 09:15:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04545 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 09:15:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA00385; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:13:21 GMT Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:13:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith Subject: Re: Installing (Last one for tonight) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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