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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!ubilab!svelte.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch!zh014.ubs.ubs.ch!zhmf9 From: zhmf9@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch (Ian Malony) Subject: Re: FreeBSD bootdisk problem Message-ID: <1994Jul14.121817.11948@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch> Keywords: FreeBSD bootdisk problem Sender: news@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch Nntp-Posting-Host: wsverne.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch Organization: Union Bank Zuerich References: <1994Jul1.110134.15310@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch> <2ven8o$623@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 12:18:17 GMT Lines: 37 In article <2ven8o$623@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: |> Ian Malony <zhmf9@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch> wrote: |> >I am trying to boot FreeBSD from a diskette drive that supports 2.88m floppies. |> |> [ Failure ] |> |> Which version of FreeBSD. I think that this bug was fixed in the recent 1.1.5 |> bootblocks. |> |> |> Nate |> -- As suggested I tried 1.1.5, but that didn't fix the problem. To recap the original problem with a bit more information: I have a problem when trying to boot the kernel floppy in a 2.88m capacity drive. The floppy is created in a 1.44m capacity drive (with dd) and boots fine from a 1.44 drive, but when I boot from the 2.88 I get: >>FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x90000 639/11456k of memory [$Revision: 1.14 $] use hd(1,a)/386bsd to boot sd0 ....... Boot: [[[fd(0,a)]/386bsd] ......... Error: C:0 H:0 S:18 Error: C:0 H:0 S:18 Error: C:0 H:0 S:18 repeat until bored Unfortunately I cannot easily replace the 2.88m drive with a 1.44m drive as the machine is a laptop. Any suggestions to help get me going? Thanks /* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ /* ian maloney || "what IS the meaning of meaning" */ /* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */