Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:35:13 +0100 From: Alex Burke <alexjeffburke@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD-HACKERS <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Boot0 on boot floppies and 2.88meg drives/controllers Message-ID: <a8b8bb51050405063553d9b762@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I seem to be haivng an odd issue on a couple of my machines here. This occurs with both 5.3-RELEASE and 4.11-RELEASE. Wasnt sure which list to post to, apologies if I chose badly. I downloaded the boot floppies, but upon putting it in the mahcine the \ symbol swirled maybe once, then a pause and then it came up with two disk error messages and then loader cannot be found. I remembered that this was a 2.88Meg capable system, and when i forced it into 1.44Meg mode in the system configuraiton FreeBSD booted like a charm. I confirmed this phenomenon on another 2.88Meg enable system here also. I must say that these systems are MCA boxes, but I am pretty confident for the boot0 program that should make no difference. I should also say the boot floppy used was a 1.44Meg normal boot floppy that had started many other systems. If this indeed is a little bug, is there anything I can do to help? FreeBSD atleast boots on the mahcine i changed back to 1.44, NetBSD seemed to hang at the point of detecting fdc0 no matter what mode it was. Thanks, Alex J Burke.
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