Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 08:29:52 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atapi.flp broken! Message-ID: <199510070729.IAA13622@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <8093.812944932@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 5, 95 07:02:12 pm
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> > > I downloaded atapi.flp from the latest snapshot and it doesn't even > > boot! It gets to "uncompressing kernel...done" and then spontaneously > > reboots (or hangs the system, depending on which computer I use). Is > > anyone else having this problem? Perhaps your kernel was too big to fit > > on the floppy and got truncated? I booted atapi.flp yesterday (the newer version of Oct 6th) and had no problems booting it. I don't have an IDE/ATAPI drive though in that system. Just used atapi.flp since it starts with letter 'a' and thus arrived earlier than boot.flp :-) (daytime ftp rates ti the US are horrible here in Germany at the moment) > > I'm investigating this - sorry for the gross failure to function! > > I'm not sure what's going on - there's not THAT much different between > the two floppies, and I hardly expected the ATAPI driver to cause > instant reboots. Thanks for the quick feedback, in any case! :( > > Jordan > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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