Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:26:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-981004-BETA observations Message-ID: <199810060326.UAA01958@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:45:54 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810051730390.5265-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> Hello all... > > I had the opportunity to test out installing and fiddling with the latest > beta a bit today. I have a lonely P90 that I was debugging (turned out to > be a disk problem - heh :/) and wanted to slap FreeBSD on it, and now that > wcarchive is back .... :) > > Things I ran into: > > 1. The disk in it originally had 2.2.1 in dedicated mode installed on it. > I went through sysinstall's 'Express' feature, removing the old > partition and putting a new one on and making a Greg Lehey > Monolithic(tm) layout. At the commit step, for some reason newfs wigged > out on it, reporting: > > newfs: ioctl(WDINFO): cross-device link > newfs: /dev/rwd0s1a: can't rewrite disk label Weird stuff. > 2. When booting, the machine emits three beeps before displaying the > boot: prompt. I tried this on two Micron PhoenixBIOS 4.04 machines. > I didn't have my laptop's floppy drive or I'd try it too. This should only happen on the install floppy; it's a usability feature which cues unsighted users to type '-h<enter>' to switch to a serial console. (Seriously) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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