Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:46:54 -0700 (PDT) From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu Subject: more 3.0-RELEASE boot.flp problems Message-ID: <199810190046.RAA12702@math.berkeley.edu>
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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
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