From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 5 12:34:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA13078 for current-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA13071 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15690(8)>; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:23 PST Received: by crevenia.parc.xerox.com id <177481>; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:12 -0800 From: Bill Fenner To: current@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-BETA install failure Message-Id: <97Jan5.123412pst.177481@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:11 PST Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I finally got the 2.2-BETA install to FTP all the files without triggering the race condition in our FTP proxy, but had a few problems afterwards: - I was unable to select "Busmouse" in the mouse selection menu, even though the probe messages included "mse0 at 0x23c irq 5 on isa". Another oddness about the mouse selection menu: when I first selected it, I could select "PS/2 mosue", but if I then selected COM1 and then went back to "PS/2" I couldn't select PS/2 the second time. - XF86Setup stopped accepting input from the keyboard after I hit enter to "dismiss" the info panel about how to set up the mouse. I couldn't figure out what to do so I went to VTY4 and killed XF86Setup. After that, there was nothing running on any other VTY (hitting ctl-alt-F[124] just beeped) and X wasn't responding to ctl-alt-BS so I ended up hitting reset. - After my bad experience with the 2.2-ALPHA install and "dangerously dedicated", I installed a partition table this time (whatever I got when I hit "A" and then said "no" to the dangerously dedicated mode). I rebooted, hit F5 for the 2nd disk (FreeBSD is on sd1), and got 5 lines of garbage displayed on the screen. Trying to boot sd(1,a)/kernel from the boot floppy results in dosdev=81 biosdrive=1 unit=1 maj=4 Invalid format! I'll start mucking around with the fixit floppy, I guess. Bill