Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:07:43 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Kevin McLaughlin <kbm2@students.uwf.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation, won't boot from flop Message-ID: <3944620F.5F35F24A@3-cities.com> References: <39445DFC.523079A9@students.uwf.edu>
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Kevin McLaughlin wrote: > > I have a PIII 500 IDE system running win98, and > when I boot from the floppies, the computer just > goes to a blank screen and does nothing. I watch > the bios count the memory and then it goes to a > blank screen. I don't get a non system disk error > and it appears as though the computer starts to > read the floppy but only for a couple of seconds. > I have used fdimage to image kern.flp and > mfsroot.flp onto the floppies several times. I > have also reread the guide and redownloaded the > files. I don't know if the problem is in the fact > that I have a Compaq system or if it is because it > is all IDE. Would the problem lie in that I have > two hard drives? I was hoping to dual boot but I > can't even get the system to boot. I would > appreciate any comments. If it only reads the floppies for a couple of seconds, you don't have a good boot floppy. It takes a long time (relatively speaking) to boot from a floppy. Make sure you can format the floppy without error and try fdimage'ing again. You may also have a bad download when you downloaded the kern.flp. There are multiple choices but only the right one works. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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