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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!kahuna.asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil!wpdis03.wpafb.af.mil!sadis01!wrdiss1.robins.af.mil!rcp6.elan.af.mil!usenet Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Infinite loop from boot.flp (need help) Message-ID: <4t5g0c$4r4@rcp6.elan.af.mil> From: Barry Mishler <mishler@mailhub.elan.af.mil> Date: 24 Jul 1996 15:37:47 GMT Organization: Air Force Flight Test Center NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.elan.af.mil Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Lines: 29 When I boot my Dell P100 with the 2.1.5 boot floppy, I initially get the four lines of header and usage information followed by the "boot:" prompt but then about three seconds later, my computer goes into a loop where it prints ERROR: C:0 H:0 S:0 to the screen infinitely. Yes, I created the floppy on a machine that normally runs Win95 but I booted from a floppy before I ran rawrite. After that happened, I wrote the boot image to another floppy using dd on an SGI Indy and I get get the same infinite loop. I've used several different floppies and I've copied boot.flp using various machines and I always get the same result. I even tried boot.flp from release 2.1.0 -- same thing. When I try these same boot floppies on an old 486/33, they work just fine. I have a 1GB Quantum Fireball followed by a 1.6GB Western Digital on the primary EIDE channel and nothing but an NEC CD-ROM on the secondary channel if that makes any difference. Can anyone give me some ideas? I've really been looking forward to getting FreeBSD running and I remain hopeful. Thank you for your time, Barry Mishler mishler@mailhub.elan.af.mil