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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!world!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.mcgill.ca!DMI.USherb.CA!tohi!lalac00 From: CHRISTIAN LALANNE <lalac00@tohi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5R -- boot failure on inst floppy Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 10:38:27 -0400 Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke, Dept. de Mathematiques et d'Informatique Lines: 37 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950616103208.19568A-100000@tohi> References: <1995Jun11.193433.22255@alw.nih.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: tohi.dmi.usherb.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <1995Jun11.193433.22255@alw.nih.gov> On Sun, 11 Jun 1995, Robert Watson wrote: > I just ftp'd the installation floppy (boot.flp) and created the disk on a > 3.5" disk drive (a:). I used essentially the same method as for 2.0, which > worked fine. Unfortunately, when I begin the boot process, I get this far: > > Booting fd(0,a)/kernel @ 0x300000 > text=0x100000 data=0x0 bss=0xa00 symbols=[+0x600+0x4+0x258+0x4+0x1d9] total=0x401439 entry point=0x300000 > > And then the system freezes with the floppy disk light on. Keyboard toggles (caps lock) don't change the lights. I'm working with a 386sx20 with 4 megs of ram, IDE (generic) controller w/2 HD's, 3 serial ports (2x16550 and one 8250, IRQ's 3, 4, 5) SMC Ultra Elite (irq 2) SBPro (irq 10). > > I'm getting the 2.0 floppy again just to make sure it's not my system failing to boot, but I've been running DOS/Windows fine for years on this system.. > > > -- > Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ > The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature > is to build better mice. I had that problem at first... Then I saw that FTP'ing from ftp.neosoft.com 250-NOTICE: There is a new boot.flp image in 250- /pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE/UPDATES directory. This fixes 250- a couple of problems with the origional boot image. If you 250- have a 4Mb machine, please use the updated floppy image. The updated floppy solved my problems... but now I've got a device timeout on ed0, which worked well under 2.0! I'm trying to install from NFS and got that problem... Anyone knows what's happening??? ____ __ __ / /_/ /_/ / /_ lalac00@dmi.usherb.ca /___ / / / \ / __/