Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 10:17:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@cslab.cs.vt.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.0.5R install notes Message-ID: <199506131417.KAA08546@husky.cslab.vt.edu>
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First, congrats to everyone who made the 2.0.5 release possible. The install was especially slick (even more so than the 2.0R one, which I though was pretty nice). I did encounter a couple thinsg worth mentioning: 1. I had some difficulty getting an MBR written correctly. I was previously running 2.0R, and the 2.0.5 install read the disklabel (or MBR, or whatever, I'm a little hazy on these ideas yet) and found my old partitions. Which seemed great at first because I was able to install 2.0.5 and retain my 300MB of stuff in /home without restoring the backups (just told it not to newfs that FS). But, after all was installed, I rebooted and got something like "partition out of reach of BIOS". I was able to stick in the boot floppy, then at the prompt tell it to boot from sd(0,a)/kernel and it worked fine. Well, I tried playing with fdisk, and disklabel, but to no avail -- again, I'm still not 100% sure how all this works. After a very frustrating hour or so, I just formatted the entire drive under DOS, then did a clean re-install of 2.0.5, and it worked like a charm. 2. Under 2.0R, the machine would not boot after a clean shutdown. I would get messages from the NCR driver (I have the NCR 53c810 SCSI card and a Micropolis 4110 Fast SCSI-2 drive) about some command failing, then stuff about inodes or symlinks, and I would have to turn the machine off. Whenever I rebooted and it actually had to go and clean the filesystems, there was no problem (ie, if I just cut the power off, and didn't 'shutdown -h now', I would get a normal reboot). I have no idea what was causing this; I believe there was some chatter in this mailling list about it awhile back. (Sanity check: I did try and force an fsck at boot time by changing /etc/rc, but that didn't help). Anyway, the problem has vanished (for me anyway) under 2.0.5R -- Jeff Aitken jaitken@vt.edu
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