Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 21:38:40 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: pilot error on my part or feedback on the 2.1 snap Message-ID: <199508300138.VAA04525@exalt.x.org>
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On the advice of Richard Wackerbarth I decided to install the 2.1 snap instead of the 2.0.5 RELEASE. This after years of running FreeBSD 1.x and 386BSD before that. While I applaud the new improved installation there needs to be a way to see what went wrong with something, a terse "It didn't work" isn't very satisfying. Howzabout a "Press F3 to see the log" or something similar? It could stand an "expert only" escape to a command shell too. I've tried quite a few different ways through the menus, but one thing that's confounded me more than once was, when trying to (W)rite the disklabel, to have it tell me that I have to label the disk in order to complete this operation. Now this seems confusing when I'm in disklabel, trying to disklabel the disk, to have it tell me I need to label the disk in order to label the disk. :-) But even more confounding is, when it finally seems willing to write the label, to have the kernel panic with the message "biodone: buffer not busy", sync the disk and reboot. So far this has happened several times and I have been otherwise unsuccessful in installing. Is this somehow a pilot error or should I fall back to 2.0.5? The machine is a recent vintage 486DX/2, PCI, onboard EIDE controller, onboard parallel and two 16550 serial. Only cards are a PCI Mach64 VGA and an old Logitech busmouse controller. The boot probe says that wdc0 is an AC31200F. The disk itself is, as I recall, a Seagate Barracuda, 1222 meg drive, actual geometry reported during the boot probe is 2484 Cyl, 16 H, 63 Sec, CMOS geometry is 621 Cyl, 64 H, 64 Sec. This machine has been running OS/2 3.0 quite happily for many moons with no problems. Thoughts? -- Kaleb KEITHLEY
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