From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 12:06:03 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA12862 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 12:06:03 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA12854 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 12:05:58 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA08301; Tue, 2 May 95 12:59:10 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505021859.AA08301@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 won't boot on my machine To: sf@salt.atb.CH (Steve Flasby) Date: Tue, 2 May 95 12:59:10 MDT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505021441.AA03742@mango.atb.ch> from "Steve Flasby" at May 2, 95 04:41:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Everything seems fine except for a couple of suspect lines in the > boot information which follow. > > ... > fdc0 at 0x3F0 0x3F7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa > fdc0: <----- This line is empty which looks bad I'm betting you have a 2.88 drive in this thing. Lie to your CMOS about it being a 1.44 and it will probably work just fine. Once you are installed, there is a hack for 2.88 in the hackers list archives on freefall.cdrom.com. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.