Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:25:23 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, thundergod@bigfoot.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REPOST - Installation Bug - All available versions hang on install Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20031216181635.02e847b8@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20031215010727.GC4077@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <Law9-F66fHPgdcpJk6K0001f78f@hotmail.com> <Law9-F66fHPgdcpJk6K0001f78f@hotmail.com>
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At 17:07 14/12/2003 -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: >On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:57:34PM -0800, Thor Anderson wrote: > > The computer is able to boot other operating systems from CD. Testing > > shows Microsoft as well as Fedora project Linux boot and install properly. > >hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1 >hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1 >hint.fdc.0.disabled=1 > >Unfortnaly, you can't do that since you don't have a serial port. The >one hack I can think of would be to try to PXE boot the CD image from >another machine. You could then modify the loader.conf on the pxe image >to force these settings. Given that the system can boot Linux, one option is to install linux, build a minimal FreeBSD filesystem, dd it to the drive, and reboot. If you want to be clever, you could even create a filesystem in a md root, and then run sysinstall over ssh. Colin Percival
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