From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 18 13:17:27 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 13:17:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D387637B404 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:17:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 1487el-0007DW-00; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:17:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eBILFCu02426; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:15:12 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:15:11 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: stable@freebsd.org To: Robert Nordier , cliff@raggedclown.net (Cliff Sarginson) References: <200012181757.eBIHvZU05111@nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <200012181757.eBIHvZU05111@nordier.com> Subject: Re: 4.2 Boot. Should i report a bug? MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00121822151100.02118@buffy> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 18 December 2000 18:57, Robert Nordier wrote: > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > Well I have posted a few times, and a few other people have as well, > > but so far no solution is forthcoming to the following: > > > > I have a Tulip Pentium 90 test machine. > > I have installed bootable versions of various Linux'es and > > BSD 4.0 on it many times without any problem. .... > > Speaking as an author/maintainer of the i386 boot code: > > It's probably not a bug: most similar cases have turned out to be > pilot error. Well speaking as a user of the i386 boot code it doesn't work on my PC. > > Your best course would probably be to get some good help on > -questions. The few suggestion I received on "questions" did not help. > Incidentally, I don't know why so many people keep > asking about elementary boot stuff on -stable, but if you're confused > about an installation issue, -stable is really not the place to go > looking for answers. I am not asking about "elementary" boot stuff, I am telling you the boot code for one reason or another does not boot my PC. I am not in the least bit confused. I am a reasonably experienced UNIX person ( more than 20 years, Edition 6,7, Early BSD, HP, Bull, Sun, Ultrix, AIX, Linux, Dynix/PTX, DRS/NX, SCO ...). You can probably assume I know something about troubleshooting problems :) I posted to "stable" because I believe it is a bug in stable, not something that I am misunderstanding - since I have tried every which way. I would not suggest it is a bug just like that otherwise ! To reiterate: I have a test PC, a very ordinary Tulip P90 with a 4MB IDE disk and 48MB EDO Ram .. I have installed on it without *any* boot problems: - Several versions of Linux/Lilo - FBSD 4.0, using the boot manager option - FBSD 4.2 Using the MBR option - FBSD 4.2 Using grub - FBSD booting by selecting the hd kernel from the boot prompt after a CD boot - OpenBSD - NetBSD The only thing that fails is installing 4.2 with the boot manager. I have installed the boot manager by hand, following the man page instructions. That fails as well. With non DD installation I see nothing at all. With DD installation I see "Read Error" Settting the boot flag with fdisk makes no difference. Adjusting BIOS to address the HD as DOS or OTHER makes no difference. I find your expression "elementary boot stuff" rather offensive. I have spent a very long time on this problem. > Send in a PR if you wish, though, and I'll look at it. Well you don't sound that interested. If it was my code I would show a bit more interest ! I'll live with 4.0. Since 4.2 clearly has bugs in this area I am not going to risk it on the gateway machine I am configuring. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message