Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 08:57:57 -0700 (PDT) From: andrew@grillet98.freeserve.co.uk To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/17752: Cannot install BTX boot manager Message-ID: <200004021557.IAA04843@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 17752 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: Cannot install BTX boot manager >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Apr 2 09:00:02 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Andrew Grillet >Release: 3.4-RELEASE >Organization: Quickstart technology Ltd >Environment: FreeBSD freebsd.grillet.home 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Mon Dec 20 06 4:39 GMT 1999 jkh@time.cdrom.com /usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC I386 >Description: /stand/sysinstall is supposed to automatically install BTX boot manager. Unfortunately it silently uses the option 'Nopacket'. I have a system on which nopacket is not viable, and boots to a bleep and sudden death. There is no indication to the user that there is a choice over this matter in the install script, nor any hint in the man page for boot that you need to do man boot0cfg! this must surely be the least guessable acronym in the knwon univers for a new user! >How-To-Repeat: Try installing on my PC! Haicom mobo with on board IDE set to AUTO and a Seagate HD. >Fix: This is primarily a documentation deficiency: you cannot install the system without knowing things which you cannot find out until it is installed! sysinstall needs to be enhanced to probe as to whether packet option is required, and there needs to be a way of selecting the option preferably in the screen where you select where to install BootEasy. There also needs to be an obvious way of re-installing bootEasy/BTX after MS products trash your boot sector! >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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