From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 4 23:27:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27444 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:27:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles186.castles.com [208.214.165.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27439 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00484; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:26:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811050726.XAA00484@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Haertel cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: attempting to install 10/31 snapshot on a Noname In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:02:09 PST." <199811050602.WAA20725@ducky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 23:26:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > So I downloaded the 10/29 snapshot, and made the necessary > boot floppies. After some difficulties with preparing > a floppy for mfsroot.gz (during which I discovered that > the FreeBSD kernel will happily boot using the old NetBSD > root file system, and run at least some NetBSD binaries--so > I know the kernel works well enough to load and run user > programs off the hard disk on this machine), I managed > to get it to load the mfsroot image and drop into the > FreeBSD install screen. Exceedingly cool! But is it > really supposed to be red? Anyway... No, it's not, and this is a symptom. > Problem: the install menu is completely non-responsive > to keyboard input at this point. Yes, we know about this. No, we don't know (yet) what's wrong, but current suspicion is that it's 64-bit uncleanliness in either ncurses or libdialog. The console driver is fine, and if you reboot a couple of times, you'll probably come up one time and work. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message