Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 22:45:58 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Kyle Peterson <kyle_peterson1@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD v3.4 Bootdisk problems Message-ID: <20000408224558.B21369@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000409022254.46411.qmail@hotmail.com>; from kyle_peterson1@hotmail.com on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 08:22:54PM -0600 References: <20000409022254.46411.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 08:22:54PM -0600, Kyle Peterson wrote: > >From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> > >Reply-To: cjclark@home.com > >To: Kyle Peterson <kyle_peterson1@hotmail.com> > >CC: FreeBSD Tech Support <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > >Subject: Re: Free BSD v3.4 Bootdisk problems > >Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:52:12 -0400 > > > >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? > >-- > > I can boot linux, windows, dos, and os/2 bootdisks. I can even boot off of > the FreeBSD cd-rom. Really strange. Exactly at what point in the boot process does it stop? Do you get the "spiny-things" first? Is it at the first stage boot or at the boot loader? Anyway, if you can boot the CDROM, it sounds like you have a workaround. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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