From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 17 10:06:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA21389 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.imsa.edu (java.imsa.edu [143.195.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA21380 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coke (coke [143.195.1.4]) by postoffice.imsa.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA17344 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:05:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199704171705.MAA17344@postoffice.imsa.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video problems w/ 2.2-RELEASE boot floppy In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 1997 23:24:40 PST." <199704040724.XAA09872@root.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:05:41 -0500 From: Don Schmidt Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199704040724.XAA09872@root.com>, David Greenman writes: [ I was having problems booting with the install disk because of bcopy optimizations or some such thing...] >> WRT booting with the -c flag: It still decides to muck up the screen, >>before allowing me to change anything. Is there anyway to pass the flag >>directly on the boot line? Thanks for your help! > > You can't set any device flags from the Boot: prompt. On the other hand, >I thought this problem didn't show itself until after userconfig...someone >else will need to answer this since I don't see the problem here. After some mucking around, I'm no closer to getting my machine to boot, so I wonder if some kind soul would build a boot disk with a kernel that has the options "I586_CPU" and "I686_CPU" removed (since the optimized code that is causing problems appears only to install itself if you've got those enabled. I would do it myself, but I don't have enough disk space anywhere to build the world... =============================================================================== Don Schmidt Network Systems Administrator yensid@imsa.edu Illinois Math and Science Academy ----------You can build a Mainframe from the things you find at home!----------