From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 16 10:25:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8B816A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:25:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB5A43D45 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:25:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan3.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.166] helo=localhost) by tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AWJsw-0004xP-Mx for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:25:30 +0000 Received: from rx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.165]) by localhost (scan3.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.166]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 18852-05 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:25:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AWJsv-0004xJ-Cl for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:25:29 +0000 Received: (qmail 32042 invoked by uid 0); 16 Dec 2003 18:25:29 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (sweep: 2.14/3.71. spamassassin: 2.53. Clear:. Processed in 1.409386 secs); 16 Dec 2003 18:25:29 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk via gateway X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 1.409386 secs) Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 16 Dec 2003 18:25:28 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20031216181635.02e847b8@popserver.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:25:23 +0000 To: Brooks Davis , thundergod@bigfoot.com From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <20031215010727.GC4077@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REPOST - Installation Bug - All available versions hang on install X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:25:34 -0000 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