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From: ambrisko@kpc.com (Douglas Ambrisko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0-ALPHA: problems
Date: 15 Nov 1994 20:34:06 GMT
Organization: Kubota Graphics Corporation; Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Message-ID: <AMBRISKO.94Nov15123406@tasha>
References: <1994Nov14.220849.425@robkaos.ping.de> <JKH.94Nov15000516@freefall.cdrom.com>
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In-reply-to: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com's message of 15 Nov 1994 08:05:15 GMT
In article <JKH.94Nov15000516@freefall.cdrom.com> jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
In article <1994Nov14.220849.425@robkaos.ping.de> robsch@robkaos.ping.de (Robert Schien) writes:
After booting the boot floppy of FreeBSD-2.0-ALPHA, installation
was no problem, but as I tried to boot from the SyQuest, I got
endless reboots. I was able to boot, when the boot diskette
is inserted and I entered 'hd(1,a)/kernel' at the boot prompt.
Could you tell us a little more about this? It's interesting.. I
don't think anyone here has tried booting off a syquest, certainly!
You say if you reference it directly from the floppy, it works, but
if you try booting from the bootblocks on the syquest, it's reboot
city?
I've also stumbled onto this problem and thought it might be in release.
(Last week I built 2.0 using a 1.5 system and jumping through a few hoops)
When I did my build I had two SCSI disks (sd0 & sd1). I built my 2.0 onto
sd1 and booted it from the 1.5 environment like you did and it worked
fine. I then loaded sd0 with my new 2.0 source since it was stable and
and build X on it so I had little need for 1.5.1. However, I could no
longer boot sd(1,a)kernel. The loader keep throwing in a slash infront
and would try to boot "/sd(1,a)kernel" which it can't find.
Note the floppy boot loader works okay and the old loaders work except
you have to specify kernel instead of 386bsd. You can do this work-around
or fix the loader (I haven't got to it yet).
[ stuff deleted ]
I've been running FreeBSD 2.0 for a 1.5 weeks and it has been stable.
I've used it to build itself and XFree 3.1. It was a bit of a pain
building but it has been rock solid. The only real weirdness is that
rsh'ing into the that machine takes awhile. I think this has to
do with skey, but I haven't played with it enough. Also the 3c509
goes offline every so often and I haven't got my GUS to do anything
but screach noise.
Good Work.
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