Subject: Re: Some beginner's questions
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/10/1997 14:33:55
At 1:47 PM 10/10/97, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>>
>> At 8:52 AM 10/10/97, Stefan Sinclair wrote:
>> >4) The latest NetBSD/mac68k Booter does not seem to be able to save the
>> >booting preferences - is this a known bug?
>>
>> Certainly it *was* a known bug, but I thought it had been fixed a long
>>time ago.
>>
>> For the record I still get that behavior as well in the current version.
>> If I save options, quit, and restart then changes get saved properly, but
>> not if I boot directly into MacBSD.
>
>I've seen the same thing w/ 1.11.0. It was fixed at one point.
>
>Did we loose the disk buffer flush? (on our way out of MacOS, we have it
>write out its internal buffers)

I sort-of remember some discussion of how removable media are ejected on
*BSD boot.  Can anyone comment on whether there was some bug-fix relating
to that which might have eliminated a necessary buffer flush?

I'm just throwing out ideas.  Ignore me if I'm way off base.

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