From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jan 25 09:52:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA09929 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA09923 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:52:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA01476; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:52:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id SAA26110; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:38:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:38:41 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: dunc@netcom.com (Kevet Duncombe) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/1809: floppy boot code causes reboot of computer References: <199701250700.XAA22158@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701250700.XAA22158@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Kevet Duncombe on Jan 24, 1997 23:00:02 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Kevet Duncombe wrote: > Hi.. I tried to install 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CD last night. > Booting from a floppy gets me to the first boot prompt, but pressing > return or -c return causes a reset before it writes any messages. I > found P.R. i386/1809 while looking for a solution, and tried using > ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/jkh/boot.flp as it suggested. For what > it's worth, it didn't help in my case. PR i386/1809 is apparently stale, and should be closed. Floppy boot used to work fine for years now. You either have a serious problem with bad memory, or your system stumples across the often-reported stack corruption problem. Don't try this old boot image (Jordan, can't you remove that), but instead, try the most recent FreeBSD 2.2(-BETA) or 3.0-SNAP boot floppy, and tell us whether this one worked. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)