From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jul 21 17: 4:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E32837C14E for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01963; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:14:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007220014.RAA01963@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:01:05 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:14:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The presumption here is that sysinstall is mounting the wrong disk. This has > nothing to do with preservation of old data. sysinstall doesn't mount any disks. > On isaac.nas.nasa.gov, putting boot.flp on the *second* disk, I ran into the > 'going nowhere w/o my init' problem as soon as I selected a terminal type. > NetBSD was installed on the first && third disks. Er, if you have been prompted for a terminal type, sysinstall is *already*running*, and it has probably exited. Can you be MORE SPECIFIC about your errors messages? > All of this has been reported in email, fairly clearly. I haven't seen the specific data that I asked for. I'm not convinced this problem is what you think it is. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message