From owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 06:15:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FE416A4B3; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.reppep.com (www.reppep.com [66.92.104.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07944400E; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:15:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pepper@reppep.com) Received: from [129.85.219.160] (salt.rockefeller.edu [129.85.219.160]) by www.reppep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE24FE49; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:16:00 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pepper@mail.reppep.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030930112341.GK551@straylight.oblivion.bg> References: <20030929151905.GD3743@freebsdmall.com> <20030930110311.GA7634@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030930112341.GK551@straylight.oblivion.bg> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:07:07 -0400 To: Peter Pentchev From: Chris Pepper Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available X-BeenThere: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Quality Assurance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:15:15 -0000 At 2:23 PM +0300 2003/09/30, Peter Pentchev wrote: >On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:03:11AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:38:05PM -0400, Chris Pepper wrote: >> >> > When I choose vt100 (option #2), the display is scrambled >> > (lines wrap, option titles shift up and down when using the arrows, >> > and get out of sync with the descriptions on the right side). With >> > ANSI (option #1), I couldn't move into the main options area -- all 4 >> > arrows, as well as tab, ask me if I really wanted to abort, and >> > there's no visible way to do anything but exit. >> >> Sounds like both of these are the wrong terminal type. > >Chris (the original poster ;), what terminal emulator are you using >on the other side of the serial cable? What terminal type is it set to >emulate? I'm using Mac OS X 10.2.8's Terminal.app, which claims to be vt100, through minicom. The bad display is probably Terminal.app's fault -- I'll try through an (Apple) xterm next -- but I was very surprised that arrow keys wouldn't work in ANSI mode. FWIW, I mentioned that primarily as an indication that I might not have hit BootMgr, since I couldn't see what I was doing well. The more serious problems are package conflicts and nonworking boot code... Thanks, Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: Rockefeller University: