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From: aa115@city.ac.uk (Abdullah R)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help , no Boot from Boot.flp in vers 2.2.1
Date: 7 May 1997 19:21:06 GMT
Organization: School of Informatics, City University, London
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Message-ID: <5kqkn2$90k@bambam.soi.city.ac.uk>
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Summary: it wont work
Keywords: Free BSD HELP
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Can anyone help, I just got my FreeBSD 2.2.1 CDROM thru.
I have created at boot floppy using boot.flp
When the boot floppy boots everything works ok 
it gets to my adaptec 1542C section and says waiting for SCSI
to settle, after a while it lists my devices (well only the 
first two devices)
then it stops and display page fault 12 and loads of numbers and text
and prints up, Reboot in 15 seconds.

when the computer does reboot the keyboard is locked, and I have to
physically turn-off the machine to reset the keyboard.

I have tried removing all the configurations from the kernel,
except the adaptec 154* drivers this still causes the same fault

The machine is perfectly ok, I have been running FreeBSD on it for the last
couple of years, and I installed 2.1.6 not so long ago with no problems 
at all, can anyone help?


thanks  Tarkan