From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 27 16:04:57 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA26506 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 16:04:57 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA26494 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 1994 00:04:54 GMT Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09211; Wed, 28 Dec 94 01:03:11 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (BAA07257); Wed, 28 Dec 1994 01:05:05 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199412280005.BAA07257@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Loop...Loop...Loop To: robertg@meaddata.com (Robert Gerdardy) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 01:05:05 +0059 (MET) Cc: robertg@meaddata.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9412271833.AA18789@atom.meaddata.com> from "Robert Gerdardy" at Dec 27, 94 01:33:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 873 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Do you even see a spinning cursor after the boot prompt and a testing > > memory image ? > > I see two steps of a spin. | then / That is very early. At that point the booter just tried to read the second block with the help of the bios from the floppy. Can you check, that the floppy types are set correctly in the BIOS ? DOS can work with wrong values in the BIOS, it looks also on the floppies and decides the size from them. But FreeBSD trusts the BIOS values. Another possibility can be a bad floppy, can you also try another floppy ? The floppy must also be error-free to work with UNIX. If a DOS format says anything about bad sectors, use another floppy. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe