From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Oct 14 20:50:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA22556 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA22536; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <199610150350.UAA22536@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: gnats (GNATS Management) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.FreeBSD.org, kew@timesink.spk.wa.us Received: from tau-ceti.isc-br.com (root@tau-ceti.isc-br.com [129.189.2.133]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA22415 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #13) id m0vD0LP-0002OCC; Mon, 14 Oct 96 20:39 PDT Received: (from kew@localhost) by phobos.walker.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA00656; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610150017.RAA00656@phobos.walker.org> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:17:56 -0700 (PDT) From: kew@timesink.spk.wa.us Reply-To: kew@timesink.spk.wa.us To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: i386/1809: Floppy boot failure Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Number: 1809 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: floppy boot code causes reboot of computer >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 14 20:50:02 PDT 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Keith Walker >Organization: none >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Environment: HP Pavilion 7020, 90 MHz Pentium, IDE disks, ATAPI cdrom, 16 MB RAM, >Description: The boot floppy code will display the Phase I boot prompt; options can be typed in, but as soon as Enter/Return is pressed, or the timeout is reached, the machine does a warm boot. The HD boot code works fine, and I am able to install the system by initially booting from DOS through the FBSDBOOT program. This problem started between 2.1 and 2.1.5. I.e., the 2.1 floppy boot code worked fine, whereas the 2.1.5 code causes the reboot. I downloaded the latest 2.2 snap boot.flp and it has the same problem. >How-To-Repeat: Attempt to boot from floppy. >Fix: Don't boot from floppy, boot from DOS through FBSDBOOT program. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: