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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!news.service.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!ucla-mic!pita!scott From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris) Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.8] Various and sundry (but not too bad) Message-ID: <scott.739245426@pita> Nntp-Posting-Host: pita.cns.ucla.edu References: <DRG.93Jun4092415@candidus.ma30.bull.com> <1993Jun4.141708.68978@cc.usu.edu> <1993Jun4.230402.370@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: 4 Jun 93 19:09:26 PDT Lines: 41 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >In article <1993Jun4.141708.68978@cc.usu.edu> ivie@cc.usu.edu writes: >>In article <DRG.93Jun4092415@candidus.ma30.bull.com>, drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson) writes: >>> o My system reboots spontaneously whenever it is halted. >>> 386bsd used to wait for me to hit a key. >> >>I've only seen it on machines running X-windows. The machine in my office, >>for instance, behaves correctly if it's not running X-windows but reboots >>on halt if X-windows was running. >This is beause the keyboard is in a strange mode; the read is seen as a >state poll, and thus returns immediately instead of waiting for the user. >Stop X before you shutdown. Hmm, I've just installed 0.8 on a system with a mono monitor and MDA. I never run X yet there's no wait after the halt for me either. A couple of other items: On a MDA, the kernel startup messages come up with all underlines... this is kind of annoying. I'm running a mixed IDE and SCSI system. So far, I've been unable to disklabel the SCSI drive. I get some message about the bootstrap not leaving room for the disklabel. I've never seen this one -- was it in 386bsd? I'd like to contribute changes, but I'm not really sure how to work this. I've picked up a lot of tar updates from NetBSD-current from sun-lamp, but I feel I'd be producing diffs against a moving target. Should I say: "here are diffs against the netbsd snapshot on <date>"? How are such changes going to be useful? -- ---------- Scott Burris UCLA Campus Network Services cnetslb@oac.ucla.edu (310) 206-4860 - OR - scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu