From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 20:21:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15638 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15625 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:21:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01958; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810060326.UAA01958@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug White cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-981004-BETA observations In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:45:54 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:26:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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' 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