From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 13:20:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA27763 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br (root@cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.2.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA27754 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:20:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA15887 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:20:01 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199606242020.RAA15887@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.2-SNAP To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:20:00 -0300 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL14 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk // From: Doug White // Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:20:13 -0700 (PDT) // Subject: Re: Problems boot 2.2-SNAP // // On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: // // > I'm trying to install 2.2-SNAP on my desktop machine, which is already // > running 2.1.0-RELEASE. But both 960501 and 960612 SNAPs could not boot // > in it. // > // > It loads from the floppy, uncompresses itself and print the message // > "Booting ...". After this, nothing more happens. I have installed // > it on other machines, so I think it's not my fault. // > // > This machine is a 486DX2/66, 40 MB RAM (no parity), Chipset ALI, VESA BUS, // > Cirrus SVGA, NE2000 NIC, 2 IDE Drives. // // I chant the mantra: // // 1) Is it an ERROR-FREE floppy? Yes. I used it to install other machines. // 2) Was the image downloaded in BINARY mode? See above... // 3) If you are running under Win95, are you booting to MS-DOS to write // the image? I'm doing an upgrade from 2.1-RELEASE. I used dd. :) Windows-NT -> Windows ? No Thanks ! // Doug White | University of Oregon // Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant // http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major The curious thing is that 2.1-R runs PERFECTLY. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro