Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:56:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more 3.0-RELEASE boot.flp problems Message-ID: <199810191156.HAA04554@dean.pc.sas.com> In-Reply-To: <2009.908763356@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 18, 1998 7:15:56 pm"
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I submitted a problem report on this yesterday. It is PR # 8368. > > Conclusion: 3.0-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp is broken. > > Well, it sounds like the new boot manager (which is not BOOTEASY, > even though it looks a bit like it) is in fact broken somehow, > even though it works on my test machines (damn!). Could you tell > us a bit more about whether this was a dedicated/non-dedicated > installation, whether there were other OSes on the disk, etc etc? > > I really would like to continue using the new boot0 since it's > the first time we've had a boot manager for which the sources were > compiliable and maintained under the FreeBSD tree, unlike BOOTEASY > which was a DOS program getting ever more stale under our umbrella. > > - Jordan > > P.S. to Robert: I *told* you we should have made those prompts > look more different; people are still confusing it with BOOTEASY! :-) -Brian -- Brian Dean Process Engineering brdean@unx.sas.com (x5235) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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