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From: John Stalker <stalker@mat...>
Subject: venti+fossil problems on new install 
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:23:04 +0100

It has certainly been interesting to follow how dma gets enabled, but
that still leaves me quite puzzled.  To recapitulate the, admittedly
longwinded, description from my first post in the thread:

1) Dma is definitely off, because I type `no' when it asks whether
I want it.
2) Initially the kernel (the default install cd kernel) can read
and write the disk correctly, at least some of the time.  I know
this because disk/fdisk has correctly set up my partitions, both
primary and secondary, as I can verify from FreeBSD, and disk/prep
can read the disklabel which it wrote on an earlier install
attempt.
3) Fmtarenas fails.
4) More puzzlingly, it seems to put the disk driver in a state
where it can no longer even read the mbr.
-- 
John Stalker
School of Mathematics
Trinity College Dublin
tel +353 1 896 1983
fax +353 1 896 2282