Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 01:18:18 +0200 From: Ville Eerola <ville@vlsi.fi> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Atapi.flp boots but doesn't recognize.. Message-ID: <199510092318.AA080120698@layout.vlsi.fi> In-Reply-To: <16102.813235340@time.cdrom.com> References: <199510082051.NAA25970@xenon.chromatic.com> <16102.813235340@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > I'd appreciate even *one* success report, folks! As it stands now, > without more feedback I'm just going to drop the idea. I haven't > heard *one* successful probe report, not one! :( OK, here is a successful boot story... I got the Oct 6 atapi.flp from ftp.freebsd.org, and tried to boot from it. It correctly detected my Mitsumi CD-ROM drive as: <FX001 DE/0G 6> It is supposedly a quad speed drive, and indeed on running dd from the shell from the fixit floppy got me around 600kB/s. The ATAPI boot floppy detected my CD-ROM even without any IDE drives attached! Very good. I really find the ATAPI boot floppy useful. Even if I'm probably not needing it for installing, it will be a life saver for many people having IDE CD-ROMs. I guess that the 4-speed Mitsumi is a very popular drive these days, at least for newer PCs. I have an Intel Zappa 120MHz motherboard with 32M memory, 2 1G Seagate Hawk SCSI drives on Adaptec 2940 controller, and Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM video card. Everything is working just fine on 2.1-stable from around Sep 17. And, while we are on the subject, here are some notes on the install and fixit floppies: 1) While using the Options editing feature on the Install program, the screen has originally a black background, but if I edit an option with text value, it gives the form to enter the text with the same blue background as was used on the main screen. After editing, the screen background is left as blue, but the options screen texts are then written with black background. It looks a bit weird, but on the other hand, everything seems to work otherwise. 2) The documentation on the boot floppy talked still about FreeBSD 2.0.5 ;-) 3) On the fixit floppy, which is a great idea, the erase character for the shell is set to delete (^?), while the keyboard produces backspace (^H) from the obvious key... It makes editing your typing a bit hard, but who will make typing errors? ;-) 4) After running the reboot command, I got a nice banner saying to press enter when done reading the message, but the machine rebooted before hitting any key. Well, in any case the machine rebooted itself unlike some other machines reported here... 5) And finally, I would be nice to either allow running fsck or use the 'mount -f' command on mounting the fixit diskette. If one reboots the machine without unmounting the fixit diskette, the clean flag is wrong, and the install program cannot mount it. This happened to me while i forgot to use the fine reboot command and instead just synced and hit reset on the machine... Fortunately I had a working system, which I used to fsck the fixit disk, after which it was again usable. Well, apart from the above minor details, all seemed to work just fine. The installation program is really a fine piece of work, and when I have used the 2.0.5, and snapshot versions it has worked really well. Thanks for the great installation scheme! Regards, Ville
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