Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:23:20 GMT From: wkb@freebie.demon.nl To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, wkb@freebie.demon.nl, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rawhide still broken on 4.3beta Message-ID: <E14g6vo-000Blw-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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> > wkb@freebie.demon.nl writes: > > Please prove me wrong.. but in my experience Rawhide (AS4[10]00) is still > > broken in 4.3beta. At least as far as booting the CD goes: > > > (and hangs here) > > > > I hope it is not the 2GB of memory biting me here. I cannot easily change > > that, and our other AS4100 is 5GB so that is even worse (as far as > > FreeBSD goes ;) > > > > No, its not the memory. There's some problem with our bootloader that > causes it to fail to load a kernel from slow media on Rawhides. The > workaround is to dd the 2.88 MB floppy to a hard disk & boot from > that. I was just hoping 4.3 mysteriously fixed this problem. It's been there for quite some time now. I will RELNOTE it > This will take a lot of time to fix, in addition to physical access to > a rawhide & a good understanding of the boot loader. AFAIK, nobody > has all three, so this remains broken. Seems like it yes Wilko (heading for the Lynx with a CD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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