From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Apr 12 21:14:16 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA09775 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 21:14:16 -0700 Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.125.110]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA09769 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 21:14:14 -0700 Received: by main.statsci.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0rzGIA-000r3vC; Wed, 12 Apr 95 21:14 PDT Message-Id: To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 80387 hangs system at divide by zero In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:42:47 -0700." <28907.797726567@freefall.cdrom.com> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 21:12:36 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > "Why does Linux work with my computer when FreeBSD just dies?" Does that mean I should mention that my brand new Pentium-90 system boots from a Linux boot disc just fine, but just sits and spins trying to boot a rawriten boot.flp from either the 0210 or 0322 SNAPs? :-( The only suggestion I've gotten on trying to figure out the problem is to start disabling things in my BIOS setup to try to dumb things down. I haven't gotten that far (mostly because I don't know that much about the various BIOS setup configuration items). I've tried various combinations of rawrite, rawrite3.zip (v1.3) and 'dd' from Linux to produce the disc. I think I'm nearly convinced I've the boot disc right (hmmm...maybe I should try booting a different computer with one). So, it seems like it's gotta be something in my BIOS setup or particular flavor of some piece of hardware (or as was suggested - not having summoned the right daemons to haunt my system). Still out of it in Seattle... Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org