From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 22:01:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23254 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:01:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA23169 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 05:01:10 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08760; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:01:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:01:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Charlie Sorsby cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 Installation Problems In-Reply-To: <199804192116.RAA00317@quail.hgo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Charlie Sorsby wrote: > During installation, at the X configuration part of the process, I > was asked it I wanted the XF86Setup approach and tried it. Well, > when it said "... This may take a while." it did--and then instead > of putting me into XF86Setup or giving me a second chance at > selecting XF86config, it jumped to the screen that asks if I want > to browse the package collection! This is a known bug in 2.2.5. > When it got to the point where the boot manager gives a choice, I > was given three choices--alright so far, I thought. The choices > were F1 for W95, F2 for BSD (2.1.5), and F5 for BSD (2.2.5). I > pressed F5 and it actually booted to 2.2.5. Well, I fiddled with > it for a while and then decided to boot back to 2.1.5 for a while > (where X is running). When, later, I tried to boot back to 2.2.5 > the boot manager went into some kind of infinite loop as soon as I > pressed F5, ignoring my F5 presses--well, not exactly, it kept > switching between the two boot managers (that on the second disk > seems only to have two choices (F2 & F5, as I recall). As long as > I pressed F5 or allowed the default to kick in, it kept switching > back and forth. Did you try hitting F2 when you got to the second disk? Hint: You can type `wd(1,a)/kernel' at the Boot: prompt to boot the second disk explicitly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message