Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:20:19 -0800 (PST) From: robert@ircnet.dk To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/10208: After 3.1-RELEASE install, it can't boot. Message-ID: <19990222182019.DF12C1109B@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 10208 >Category: kern >Synopsis: After 3.1-RELEASE install, it can't boot. >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 22 10:30:00 PST 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Robert Martin-Legène >Release: 3.1-RELEASE >Organization: L.M. Ericsson A/S >Environment: Never got it running. It was the release found on ftp2.dk.. and ftp.freebsd.org on 19990218-19990219 >Description: Tried upgrading first, as I never actually upgraded anything, but rather reinstalled (I don't trust upgrades to upgrade enough, and it's never certain exactly what it upgrades). After exiting sysinstall it wanted to reboot.. fine with me, but when it tried to find the kernel it said it was invalid or couldn't find it or so (I didn't pay particular attention to the error message). I thought it was just the upgrade that failed and tried a complete reinstall (repartitioning etc). Every time I rebooted the boot manager said F1: FreeBSD as it should, but it also said F5: Drive0 (there abouts). When I made a second (spare, unused) partition on the machine, the F5 was replaced with F2: FreeBSD but it still didn't work. I never got past the boot manager after the full installations. It would wait for me to press something.. I pressed F1 and it said beep. I pressed a lot of buttons, but ended up filling up the BIOS keybuffer making the computer beep. After 8 reinstallations from various sources and with different disk setup, I went back to 3.0-RELEASE to have a working system. >How-To-Repeat: Install 3.1-RELEASE unless someone fixed it. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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