From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 13:46:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CB537B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.102.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DC743F3F for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:46:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from 207.179.99.168 ([207.179.99.168]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:45:48 -0500 From: taxman To: "Lucas Reddinger" , Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:49:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <36685.207.230.138.240.1049051404.squirrel@mail.wlwhosting.com> In-Reply-To: <36685.207.230.138.240.1049051404.squirrel@mail.wlwhosting.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303301649.33647.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Mar 2003 21:45:49.0033 (UTC) FILETIME=[BA2EED90:01C2F705] Subject: Re: Installation problems with config> X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:46:16 -0000 On Sunday 30 March 2003 02:10 pm, Lucas Reddinger wrote: > To start off, I'm unsure what the stable tag is, but I'm assuming you're > still in RC2. > > I recently grabbed RC2 (last night to be specific). I have tried it both > from an FTP ISO that was burned a couple weeks ago, and by downloading the > latest RC2 code via FTP directly. > > Installation went fine, but upon booting my system, I had to do some > runtime config to get it booted (this is normal). However, when I got to what do you normally have to configure? This could help in figuring out the issue. Do you then build a custom kernel to avoid doing that every time? What do you do change there? > the config prompt, the prompt would repeat and completely cover my whole > screen, and it would keep echoing. I tried installing from FTP repeatedly > last night, and the same thing would happen. Because of this, I could not > get the system booted, and thus cannot provide you with any firther > information. sure you can, if you got RC1 installed, can you show us the output of dmesg? if you don't have it installed anymore, then try installing 4.7-release and then copy down the output of dmesg from there > I did install RC1 successfully, though, and it all works great (and config > prompt does not take over my screen.) > > It is just me, or did something break? well if RC1 installed, RC2 dosn't and you didn't change anything else, then maybe something broke. Tim