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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!qualcomm.com!usenet From: Bill Paul <bpaul@qualcomm.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie boot floppy problem -Help me! Date: 23 Aug 1995 20:09:20 GMT Organization: Qualcomm Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <41g1tg$cv@qualcomm.com> References: <415o9p$526@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <417n0l$cpq@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: wpaul-pc.qualcomm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) To: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu Hi Bill, it's you again... I mean Bill again. Anyway, I tried what you suggested. The first time I only disabled wdc1, no success. The second time, I disabled wdc1, bt0, npx0 (I have no co-processor), ahb0, ahc0 and another that I can't remember now. This time it worked! I was pretty jazzed when I saw the color install screen. So like an idiot, I chose "Do nothing and reboot", because I wanted to know which one did the trick. So I tried all of the options disabling one at a time and nothing worked. Then I disabled all of the ones when I had it working, and now they dont work. So now I'm back to where I started with no idea why it worked once. One question that maybe you or someone else could help me with is, What are all the devices? Some are obvious, like fd0, wdc0, wd0, sio0, lpt0, etc. But I was just pulling straws with some of the other devices like ahb0 ,bt0 and so on without any idea what I was doing. Also any guesses on my intermittent booting would be helpful. Thanks alot Bill, -Bill