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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!news4.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.5R REboot loop! Date: 22 Aug 1996 15:53:09 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4vhs8l$di@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4v7gsq$dqj@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael James Braunstein (mjb1@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu) 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. :) This really sounds like a dodgy floppy. Can you mount the floppy on your 2.1.0 system ? Can you fdisk /dev/rfd0.1440 ? For example, my laptop happily writes floppies with absolute garbage. I never get a write failure, but try to read it back ???? *boom*. (It's not FreeBSD, it happens with DOS & Windoze too) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....