Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 10:57:49 -0500 (MET) From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) To: jeffh@cybernetics.net (Jeff Hoffman) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 021095-SNAP Message-ID: <m0rkDGA-00098BC@robkaos.ruhr.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950301144232.16747A-100000@server0> from "Jeff Hoffman" at Mar 1, 95 02:44:36 pm
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> > On Wed, 1 Mar 1995, Michael Quigley wrote: > > > I've not been able to boot the latest snapshot version on at least 3 > > machines at my disposal. They are all of varying configurations and > > processors. Basically what happens, is that they lock up when trying to > > boot off the floppy. I've made my boot disk the same way I did with > > 2.0-RELEASE: > > > > dd if=<filename> of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k > > > > With no luck. Any ideas? > > I had this same thing happen to me. What always get me by it (this may > be totally different from what's happening with you) is to repeatedly tap > the num lock key while it's booting. > > ie. hit turn on the computer, right before it hits the floppy start > tapping num lock until you see the FreeBSD boot prompt. > > Don't ask me why this works, I have no clue, but it DOES work. My > computer would not boot (it would lock) any I did this and it fixed it. > Then I tried it again to make sure it wasn't a fluke. > I have made a similiar experience. I have to reset my machine a few times before FreeBSD will be booted. Never had this problem with 2.0-RELEASE. Why was the boot code changed? Robert
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