From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 14:27:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.sasknow.net (stimpy.sasknow.net [207.195.92.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9432F37B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by home.sasknow.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3JFQpY57251; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:26:52 GMT (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: home.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:26:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Ryan Thompson X-X-Sender: To: Eric Smith Cc: Subject: Re: Install problem In-Reply-To: <01041917224500.02533@david> Message-ID: <20010419152031.X47611-100000@home.sasknow.net> Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Smith wrote to Ryan Thompson: > Actually, I am booting from the kernel floppy. I can boot it just > fine on other machines...just not on the MCA box. What led me to > believe that the floppy controller/drive was the problem was that it > gave me some sort of I/O error, coupled with a hex address. I'll try > and re-create the problem later if neccesary. In THAT case, yes, it could very well be your floppy or controller. You didn't tell us you actually got an error on bootup! :-) If you send us a copy of the error output, with more detailed specs on your actual hardware configuration, someone might be able to offer a better clue than my more general advice ;-) Just a thought: If you can't get the floppies to go, you can always install from CD. (Download the ISO for the desired release/snapshot from ftp.freebsd.org). It might be easier to borrow a cheap/compatible IDE CD-ROM drive than it would be to troubleshoot/replace your floppy drive/controller. - Ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message