On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Sascha Wildner <s...@online.de> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:16:25 +0200, Carsten Mattner > > <carstenmatt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner <s...@online.de> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner >>> <carstenmatt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box. >>>> >>>> When setup was in the configuration phase it didn't allow setting >>>> passwords with : or other characters. >>>> >>>> At that point I hit hard (cold) reset and since that time the machine >>>> won't leave the BIOS startup phase (POST?). >>>> >>>> Took out the CMOS battery for a minute to no avail. Anything else I >>>> should try? Is it possible that the ROM or CPU has been damaged by >>>> the installer? I can't even get into the BIOS via DEL. >>>> I'll take out the CMOS battery overnight and try tomorrow. >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help. >>> >>> >>> >>> It sounds like http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/989 >> >> >> Sascha, is it be safe to assume that once I've made the >> disk functional NetBSD, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD would not have >> the problem? I'm not sure after reading the bug report. > > > I don't know about *BSD's behavior. > > What you _can_ do is to use one of the scripts provided in > /usr/share/examples/rconfig that we ship. hammer.sh is for a normal install, > so I'd use that. Note that it assumes you want to install DragonFly to the > whole disk. > > Just boot the CD/IMG and login as root and copy one of the scripts to your > home directory. Then edit it, supplying your disk name at the top. Also make > sure that you change all instances of 'fdisk' to 'fdisk -C' (as mentioned in > the issue #989). Once you've reviewed your changes, run the script (beware, > it's a csh script, even though it's named '.sh'; yes I know it's silly...) > and cross your fingers. :) > > If the issue is what is described in the bug report, you should have a > system that boots.
I haven't yet managed to find another machine or adapter to plug the disk in. Once I get access how many bytes do you think I have to zero over to fix the disk?