From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 5 15:49:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA21727 for current-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 15:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA21721 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 15:49:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA28576 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:49:15 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA11018 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:49:15 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id AAA01186; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:43:25 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:43:25 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA install failure References: <97Jan5.123412pst.177481@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <97Jan5.123412pst.177481@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Jan 5, 1997 12:34:11 -0700 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill Fenner wrote: > - 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! Too bad. :-( Btw., we tried to improve DD mode, maybe you can give it a try again? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)