Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:47:04 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Dan Strick <dan@math.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more 3.0-RELEASE boot.flp problems Message-ID: <19981018184704.A21657@Alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <199810190046.RAA12702@math.berkeley.edu>; from Dan Strick on Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 05:46:54PM -0700 References: <199810190046.RAA12702@math.berkeley.edu>
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I just installed 3.0-R and have exactly the same problems. argl. On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 05:46:54PM -0700, Dan Strick wrote: > After installing 3.0-RELEASE, I attempted to boot the new system > The booteasy program listed all the dos partition table entries and > asked which one to boot, giving the FreeBSD partition as the default. > I thought this was a bit odd. In my experience, the first time you > boot after a booteasy installation it indicates "F?" is the default. > So I hit return and the booteasy program beeped at my. The I hit > the specifically desired F-key and the booteasy program beeped at > me again. No matter what I typed, the boot program just beeped > at me. It did not even retype the boot prompt as I recall it > did after an inappropriate input. > > Then I did a hard reset. No change. I power cycled the machine. > No change. I rebooted the bootstrap floppy and it came up running > the standard installation script but was very confused about which > keyboard key meant what. (For example, the left arrow key selected > the "exit" option and the other arrow keys did nothing at all.) > I checked all the keyboard "lock" keys and they were ok. > > So I reset the system and rebooted and this time the boot floppy > came up ok. I went into the disk selection/partition menu > and reinstalled the booteasy boot block (with the undocumented > "w" option). Booteasy continued to misbehave as described > above. The I booted a slightly older boot floppy (3.0-19981009-BETA > I believe) and reinstalled the booteasy boot block. This fixed > the problem. Then I reinstalled booteasy from the 3.0-RELEASE > floppy and the problem came back. Then I reinstalled booteasy > from the BETA release floppy and this fixed the problem. > I decided to leave well enough alone. > > Then I checksummed my 3.0-RELEASE boot floppy and compared it > to the boot.flp image on disk and the boot.flp entry in the > 3.0-RELEASE/floppies/CHECKSUM.MD5 file. They all agreed. > My floppy was copied correctly. > > Conclusion: 3.0-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp is broken. > > Dan Strick > dan@math.berkeley.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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