From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 19 13:51:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6C637B40C; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020619205135.NVFI2751.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:51:35 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5JKpZUw048093; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5JKpYas048092; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206192051.g5JKpYas048092@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bob Johnson Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: Errata on CDROM installs (was Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release) In-Reply-To: <20020619195555.GA17166@scanner.engnet.ufl.edu> References: <20020619195555.GA17166@scanner.engnet.ufl.edu> Comments: In-reply-to Bob Johnson message dated "Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:55:55 -0400." From: bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1073431058P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:51:34 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_1073431058P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Bob Johnson wrote: > > I've written up a slightly more polished errata note; a PDF rendering is > > at the URL below. Could someone tell me if this actually works or not? > > (I'm especially interested in feedback on the CD-ROM install procedure.) > > It doesn't work for me. The boot messages show that the CD-ROM remains > in PIO mode. I forgot to bring the details with me, so I can't tell > you what type of CD it is at the moment. OK. > > I have never seen the problem first-hand, so some of you folks who've > > actually experienced it need to say if I've got it right or not. > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/doc/errata/article.pdf > > > > I suggest adding something to explain that during install, you need > to hit alt-F2 to see the console messages. People reading this are > likely to be inexperienced, else they would have already seen this > on -stable or -questions. OK. At what point should they do this? > I also suggest mentioning that this workaround works only in some > (or maybe "most") cases. Yeah, after a couple of other people said it didn't work for them, I added some text to the effect that this works in some (but not necessariily all) cases. Thanks! Bruce. --==_Exmh_1073431058P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9EO7W2MoxcVugUsMRAvYAAJ0bCXSyMtbz201EdACFbitoRzsk/QCggpK1 LWCZPnAd3lziei04EN7gF1g= =NCzW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1073431058P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message