From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 11:33:32 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 E710C16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:33:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from cpc2-cove3-6-0-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com (cpc2-cove3-6-0-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com [81.107.10.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E17343F85 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:33:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from gamma.private.lan (gamma.private.lan [192.168.0.12]) ESMTP id hB3JXPiE002828 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:33:25 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) From: ian j hart To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:33:25 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312031933.25176.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> Subject: 4.9 install buglet 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: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:33:33 -0000 Just an FYI in case anyone else runs into this, or something similar. I have a semi-reproducable install failure. Everything appears to complete but the systems will not boot, and continually restart. cheap SIS630 M/B floppy install -> local ftp, local release build fdisk: pre-existing 2047MB FAT32 primary partition remainder BSD standard MBR, not booteasy label: ad0s1 /dos auto for remainder distrib = minimum Work around. Force write in label screen (or rewrite MBR and label post reboot) As I have a work-around it's difficult to justify spending much time tracing this, but it might save you some head scratching if you run into it. -- ian j hart http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031016