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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Infinite loop from boot.flp (need help) Date: 25 Jul 1996 21:14:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4t8o2o$mn9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4t5g0c$4r4@rcp6.elan.af.mil> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Barry Mishler <mishler@mailhub.elan.af.mil> wrote: > 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 Basically means your bootstrap cannot read the floppy at all. Are you sure the machine's setup (in particular floppy drive setup) is okay? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)