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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: Can't load Free BSD on my HD Message-ID: <D9Cw6J.971@tfs.com> Sender: usenet@tfs.com (Mr. News) Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA References: <RONNIE.95May29121613@madhatter.cisco.com> Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 20:13:30 GMT Lines: 25 In article <RONNIE.95May29121613@madhatter.cisco.com>, Ronnie B. Kon <ronnie@cisco.com> wrote: > >The odd thing I notice is that my partition maps (mapping the >partitions to their mount points) do not appear to be being saved. >When I boot the floppy system the partitions are there, but their >mount information is lost. Am I missing something very basic? (Not >as basic as writing it--I do that and watch the HD LED blink). The 2.0 install did not try to read back any old /etc/fstab files to see what was where. I don't know about the new upcoming install, but I doubt they thought about this too much,, they had bigger problems.. > >The other odd thing is I'm getting a bunch of stray interrupts on >irq7. I have not tried to track that down yet. I don't see where >that should be causing this but will probably try finding that if >nobody can suggest a better approach (slow going when every reboot is >off of the floppy). irq 7 is to some extent a 'catchall' irq.. misbehaving hardware will generate irq 7.. >