From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 8 12:52:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB0D37B5CD for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA20564; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:52:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:52:12 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Kyle Peterson Cc: FreeBSD Tech Support Subject: Re: Free BSD v3.4 Bootdisk problems Message-ID: <20000408155212.A14643@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000408193254.87845.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000408193254.87845.qmail@hotmail.com>; from kyle_peterson1@hotmail.com on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:22:23PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:22:23PM -0600, Kyle Peterson wrote: > I am having this strange problem when trying to boot with the kern.flp image > on my Compaq Pressario computer. When I try to boot from the disk the > computer starts to read the floppy, but then the screen stays black and that > is as far as it gets. If I try the exact same disk on any one of my other > machines it works fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you > very much. Is the floppy drive broken? Have you tried another floppy like a MS-DOS, Windows boot disk, or Linux boot floppy? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message