From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 23:38:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6955416A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:38:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA7B43D48 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:38:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.34] (adsl-67-127-84-57.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.127.84.57]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8MNc7Dl010602; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:38:07 -0700 Message-ID: <41520CC5.8040401@root.org> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:37:41 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Strick References: <200409221756.i8MHusL6000461@mist.nodomain> In-Reply-To: <200409221756.i8MHusL6000461@mist.nodomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: swhetzel@gmail.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: dan@mist.nodomain Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1 bootstrap failures X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:38:13 -0000 Dan Strick wrote: > Booting 3.5-BETA5-i386-disc2 in "safe mode" worked, but the system did > not seem to see my floppy disk drive and consequently I was unable to > copy my dmesg and pciconf output anywhere. With some extra effort, I > might be able to transfer the stuff via a hard disk partition. > > Is there any useful diagnostic information that I might produce for anyone? How about a dmesg (or at least any part with fd* in it) to see what's wrong with the floppy? -- Nate