From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 04:58:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27582 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:58:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lamb.sas.com (lamb.sas.com [192.35.83.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27575 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdean@unx.sas.com) Received: from mozart (mozart.unx.sas.com [192.58.184.8]) by lamb.sas.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA22582; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:57:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dean.pc.sas.com by mozart (5.65c/SAS/Domains/5-6-90) id AA02626; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:57:20 -0400 Received: (from brdean@localhost) by dean.pc.sas.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id HAA04554; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:56:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brdean) From: Brian Dean Message-Id: <199810191156.HAA04554@dean.pc.sas.com> Subject: Re: more 3.0-RELEASE boot.flp problems In-Reply-To: <2009.908763356@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 18, 1998 7:15:56 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:56:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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