From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 12:25:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E470C37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:25:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BB343E91 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from labfire@mindspring.com) Received: from 1cust97.tnt1.coupeville.wa.da.uu.net ([67.250.104.97] helo=mindspring.com) by smtp6.mindspring.com with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18EbPl-0000hB-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:25:38 -0500 X-Mailer: Ultrafunk Popcorn release 1.24 (06-Sep-2002) X-URL: http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/popcorn Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:26:18 -0800 From: Assayer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't boot with FTP floppies Reply-To: Sender@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello again: Please disregard my prior e-mail, below, as I believe the problem was my ram memory is too small on the computer. I tried your floppies on a 24 meg ram computer and they work fine. The computer I had been trying load on was a DEC with 8 megs of ram. It worked on the earlier distro, but not the later ones. Thanks, P. Reed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:59:50 -0800 X-Priority: 3 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't boot with FTP floppies Hello: I downloaded your FTP boot floppies for versions 4.6, then 4.6.2, and 4.7, kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, used FDImage to put them on MSDos floppies but they failed to get an options screen after both disks were loaded. Kern.flp loaded then the mfsroot.flp loaded but produced a boot prompt and nothing else, giving the message "No /boot/loader" and then "No /Kernel". Hitting the "enter" key did nothing except repeat the boot prompt. I then tried version Free BSD 4.4 floppy files from a CD, kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, using FDImage, and they worked fine, putting me into an options screen for partitioning the hard drive. I noticed the CD floppy files had a /sysinstall screen that the FTP floppies lacked. Is part of the boot loader missing from your more recent version FTP floppy files? I've tried everything, even reading the instructions, but nothing works except the earlier boot floppies from the CD. Thanks for any ideas. P. Reed reedlab@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message