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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:57:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BOOT.FLP hanging
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960318155411.997B-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960318110204.243A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>

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On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:

> I've got a problem machine I'm trying to get FreeBSD 2.1R installed on.  
> It's a Pentium, 66Mhz, PCI bus with ALI chipset, Award Modular Bios ver 
> 4.50G.  Basically, even with all controllers and network cards (except 
> floppy and wd0) disabled, the machine hangs after it reports the following
> 
> npx0 on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> 
> no disk activity, though if we disable the floppy controller, the floppy 
> light stays lit.
> 
> Anyone know what the problem is?  I'm going to try a few other boot disks 
> (2.0.5, 2.2snap, whatever else I can find).

the 960303 snap does boot on said machine, so it's currently running a 
very kludgy mix of 2.1R and 2.2 snap.

Just in case anyone's curious.




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