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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: argh^2
Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
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Jordan K. Hubbard, On 07-Nov-98 you wrote:
> > - The bit about not making the root disk bootable still isn't fixed
> > yet.
> >   I had to boot off the floppy and fix it manually.
>  
>  Sorry, could you refresh my memory - you're saying we need to set a
>  partition active, or something?  I'm not sure what the problem is
>  here.

Last I checked, disklabel needed to be done (again) AFTER the newfs was
done, and /boot did not get populated from /usr/mdec.  But this knowledge
is a week old.

>  Also, just curious: Is the kern.flp working correctly now in that it
>  prompts for and correctly loads the mfsroot, then boots?  If not, I
>  still need to beat on the load script.

Last I checked it did.

> > - To my surprise, the sysinstall partitioning phase did not find the
> >   old NetBSD partitions on the disk.  The reason I find this surprising
>  
>  Didn't they just change to 0xA9 or something?  FreeBSD's view of the
>  disk is determined solely by libdisk, so if it's out of sync with the
>  kernel's own partition search order, that's something to look into.

FreeBSD can see, fsck and mount digital Unix partitions.

> > - The sysinstall screen still gets the colors wrong.
>  
>  Hmmm.  This should still be fixed, but even once it is we can perhaps
>  stick with the same color scheme just to differentiate the alpha
>  install? :-)

Yup, yup, yup...

Simon


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