From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 1 05:24:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA09833 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 05:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA09791 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 05:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id OAA20196; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:22:59 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:22:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199710011222.OAA20196@bitbox.follo.net> From: Eivind Eklund To: vel@twister.artelecom.ru CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: vel@twister.artelecom.ru's message of Wed, 1 Oct 1997 13:18:45 GMT Subject: Re: Some FreeBSD bugs that not yet fixed. References: <199710011318.NAA06479@FreeBSD.siu.kbsu.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi friends ! > I'm using FreeBSD about 2 year and I think that it's great and cool ! > But I see some bugs in all FreeBSD versions since 2.1.0 > 1. When I insert floppy disk with BAD tracks in system areas, and then > do "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt", the system sometimes hangs up. I still > can switch between consoles, but all processes stops and I can't do > anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work also, the only way to reboot is pressing > RESET. > 2. I installed FreeBSD from DOS portition, and I want to remove this > partition after installation. I run "sysinstall" utility, enter > "Disk Partition Editor", remove DOS partition and create new FreeBSD partition. > Then I enter "Disk Label Editor", create slices I need and press "w" to > write changes. Sysinstall utility says "segmentation fault, core dumped" > at this point. This is probably due to the DOS file system not being stable enough. Try unmounting and removing the DOS-partition from /etc/fstab before you replace it with a BSD partition. Eivind.