Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 01:05:05 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: robertg@meaddata.com (Robert Gerdardy) Cc: robertg@meaddata.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loop...Loop...Loop Message-ID: <199412280005.BAA07257@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <9412271833.AA18789@atom.meaddata.com> from "Robert Gerdardy" at Dec 27, 94 01:33:26 pm
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> > 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
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