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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!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: 2.1.5R REboot loop! Date: 18 Aug 1996 19:40:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4v7rjh$2jq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4v7gsq$dqj@uwm.edu> 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 mjb1@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu (Michael James Braunstein) wrote: > I am running 2.1.0R and this is only due to the problems I had > with the 2.1.5R boot.flp bootdisk. > When I booted with said bootdisk, I would get the boot prompt > and regardless of what I entered it would reboot. It would reboot > even if I didn't enter anything!? what's going on? > Luckily 2.1.0R worked fine...but you know how it is, I want the > newest. :) Bad floppy? At this early point in time, FreeBSD is not yet active at all, the boot loader toggles between real and protected mode, thereby reading the file /kernel off the floppy into the RAM. If i get you right, it seems to crash at the first real/protected mode switch. -- 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. ;-)