From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 7:28:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CBE3F72 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 07:28:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA81696; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:29:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200002071529.KAA81696@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200002070753.IAA44194@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 10:29:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Christoph Kukulies Subject: RE: 3.4 CD boot nogo on GA-BX2000/PIII-500 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Feb-00 Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I tried to do an upgrade of a 3.3 system which I installed > yesterday (the 3.3 CD didn't boot either - Atapi CD as master on first > IDE controller). When trying to boot the 3.4 CD I got > > 1. FD 2.88 MB System Type (00) > > and then lock-o-city. Apparently your BIOS doesn't grok 2.88 floppies very well. You should be able to boot fine off of the boot floppies. I'm working on a fix for this that should hopefully be ready for 3.5 and 4.1. > I believe this message comes from the FreeBSD boot loader. > (I have a 1.44 MB Floppy in the system BTW). > OK, I'll continue with creating floppies... > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message