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From: ssapozni@mercury.sfsu.edu (Sam Sapoznick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Bootdisk reboots
Date: 21 Nov 1995 00:58:30 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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'm having troubles with both the current (2.1 release) and older (2.0.5)
boot disks. I dd the images to floppy, and then try to start up from them, 
but in both cases, the boot proceeds for about 15 secs and then the machine
does a soft reboot. It never gets past the "spinning slash" stage.

Any recommendations?

Hardware is HP Vectra VL2 4/66 with Buslogic ISA SCSI-2 controller and SMC
Elite 16 ether card.

  -sam