From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 16 03:01:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA16900 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 03:01:32 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA16867 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 03:01:26 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23555; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 12:01:23 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA00593; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 12:01:22 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA16298; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 09:19:38 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507160719.JAA16298@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: HEYELP! (486DL fails to boot 2.0.5R-CD floppy image) To: john@starfire.mn.org (John Lind) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 09:19:37 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199507142348.SAA00186@starfire.mn.org> from "John Lind" at Jul 14, 95 06:48:22 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 542 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Lind wrote: > > Whether or not I specify -c, it reads in the image from the floppy, > uncompresses the kernel (... Done), says it is Booting the kernel, then > BAM! Instant reboot. As nearly as my eyes can tell, there is no Copyright > notice or anything before the screen clears and it does the Reset code > stuff. Terry Lambert's hint #1: turn off the caches (just for installation). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)