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From: cq@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Rob Tillotson)
Subject: Floppy problems at boot.
Message-ID: <CQ.93Nov15185922@staff.cc.purdue.edu>
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 23:59:21 GMT
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With the advent of shared libraries for *BSD, I may actually be able
to fit it into the limited disk space available on my portable, so it
is time to revisit a problem I have had for a long time...
... namely, that no *BSD kernel I have yet tried will successfully
boot from floppy on my system. I have tried every one I can find,
from original 386BSD to the latest NetBSD and FreeBSD, and all have
the same problem. The kernel loads just fine, but when it tries to
set the root device (to the floppy), it reports a hard error on fd0
and panics.
My system is a TI Travelmate 4000 portable, 486SX 25MHz, 4MB RAM.
Both DOS/Windows (ugh) and Linux are installed and run without
difficulty. I have tried configuring a kernel (NetBSD, since that is
what we have in the office) with exactly the minimal correct set of
stuff, and it didn't do any better.
I am completely stumped. Does anyone out there know what I can do to
fix this?
Thanks,
--Rob
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Rob Tillotson N9MTB Internet: cq@staff.cc.purdue.edu
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