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 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970106004325.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <97Jan5.123412pst.177481@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Jan 5, 1997 12:34:11 -0700 References: <97Jan5.123412pst.177481@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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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. ;-)
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