Subject: Re: possible install problems in current sources?
To: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/10/1999 13:14:48
is this with the very latest 1.4 sysinst?
"John F. Woods" <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com> writes:
> [Actually the floppy drive wasn't dead, I was using /dev/rfd0d because of a
> brain bubble...]
>
> I think I've tracked down the "No operating system" problem to the traditional
> BIOS-geometry/fdisk-geometry disagreement. That seems to cut the list of
> problems down to
>
> * misleading or broken partition editor
> * unexplained lockup of sysinst output
>
> The install ramdisk is not an ideal environment for debugging, but I'll see
> if I can nail down what is going wrong with sysinst.