From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 09:34:34 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA22543 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:34:34 -0800 Received: from gaudi.diatel.upm.es (gaudi.diatel.upm.es [138.100.49.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA22521 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:33:23 -0800 Received: by gaudi.diatel.upm.es (4.1/SMI-4.1) Wed, 29 Mar 95 19:31:49 +0200 X400-Received: by mta diatel.upm in /PRMD=/ADMD=/C=/; Relayed; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:31:44 UTC+0200 X400-Received: by /PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/; Relayed; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:31:44 UTC+0200 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:31:44 UTC+0200 X400-Originator: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-Content-Type: P2-1984 (2) X400-Mts-Identifier: [/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/;950329193144] Content-Identifier: 643 From: Javier Martin Rueda To: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503291524.aa21704@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> Message-Id: <643*/S=jmrueda/OU=diatel/O=upm/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/@MHS> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD boot floppies won't boot Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Ean X.400 to MIME gateway) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a PC which will boot all the boot floppies I have thrown at it > (dos os2 linux netbsd and even freebsd) except FreeBSD boot disks from > 950210 onwards. So, you are in the same case as I: I installed 2.0 RELEASE and it worked fine. However, from SNAPSHOT 950210 onwards, the following happens: I enter the boot/install disk, the system begins booting, reading the disk and so on. Everything seems to be going OK, except for a "minor" detail: I cannot see anything in the screen. Only the cursor goes from blinking to steady a few seconds after boot. I don't know the reason yet, but I managed to solve that: just install the boot blocks from 2.0 RELEASE on the install disk and you will see things again. I've done that this morning, as I wanted to test 950322-SNAP, and it worked! To do that, you must have a 2.0 system running already, of course :-). NOTE: the cursor still goes from blinking to steady, just when the kernel has been loaded and the memory test begins, and the screen seems to be in a graphic mode instead of a text mode (because text display is slower than usual). But at least, you see the display :-) Anyone has a better solution than this one?