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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:48:17 +0900
From:      "Dan R. Daniels" <mdiverda@nia.attmil.ne.jp>
To:        <questions@FreeBSD.org>, <support@cdrom.com>
Subject:   HELP!!!
Message-ID:  <PLEKIBPIMANAPAMNNDCFEEABCAAA.mdiverda@nia.attmil.ne.jp>

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Dear Sirs,
 I recently received my FreeBSD 4.4 CDROM Set (4 CDROMs), and am having
trouble getting past the boot up process.  First let me set your mind at
ease, I have a very good understanding of computer hardware, software, and
configuration from all the way through MSDOS 3.23 through Win 2000 Pro and
have classroom experience recently with Unix System Administrator Course
(Free BSD).  Hopefully you should not have to start with did you turn the
computer on question.....  Anyway, The following is a list of my hardware,
current O/S and synopsis of what I have done and what the result was:

Hardware:
ASUS P2B-F AGP Mainboard & Award Bios
Intel Pentium II, 350mhz Celeron
128MB 168 pin DIMM Memory module
18Gbyte Hardrive space (3 Physical Drives)
Matrox Millenium G200 8MB SGRAM AGP
TEAC CD-524E IDE CDROM Drive
Matsushita CW-7582 IDE CDR Drive
IOMEGA Zip 250
Stdrd 3.5" Floppy Drive

Current O/S:
Win 2000 Professional V 5.00.2195

Synopsis of events undertaken:
Action: 	Modified BIOS to allow CDROM Boot
Result: 	Would not boot from CDROM gave the following error:
  			"CDROM Boot Failure"

Actions Taken:	Read all txt files in the FreeBSD CDROM Root, Floppies,
tools directories, and  
				and followed instructions on setting up boot
floppies as follows:

Step 1.		Modified BIOS to allow CDROM Boot:
			Received the following symptom:

  			"CDROM Boot Failure"

Step 2.  	Formatted floppies from in Win 2000 Pro utilizing the
makeflp.exe located in FreeBSD
 			CDROM Root, and it asked for 1 disk for the kern.flp
and one for mfsroot.flp and 
			the process completed with no problems.
Step 3.		Transferred image files from in Win 2000 Pro by running the
FDimage.exe file to transfer 
			image files of the kern and mfsroot .flp files to
each of their respective disks.  
			There were no errors displayed.
Step 4.		Re-Modified BIOS to boot primarily from A : Drive.
Step 5.		Put Floppy with Kern.flp into floppy drive and rebooted
computer.  Received the 
			following symptoms:

			Disk Error 0x10 (lba=0xd8)
			Invalid Format

			>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
			Default: 0:fd(0:a)/kernel
			boot:
			No /kernel

			>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
			Default: 0:fd(0:a)/kernel
			boot:  

NOTE: 		Cursor left flashing immediately following second "boot:"
and no further action
			from computer.

Step 6.		Started at Step 1 again and retried each step, resulting in
identical results.


I am assuming that by the errors given that my computer will not support
booting from CDROM, and the boot process could not find the kernel on the
floppy disk, but I did not receive any errors when transferring the image
file.  Can you provide me some assistance?  I am sure there is something
that I have overlooked, or did incorrectly and greatly appreciate what ever
assistance you can provide.  Thanks in advance and look forward to your
response.

Point of contact Data:
Evening Phone: (Japan) 011 81 568 72 5935
Email:  	mdiverdan@hotmail.com
		mdiverda@nia.attmil.ne.jp
		danielsd@mailyo.ftscpac.navy.mil

Dan R. Daniels


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