From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 16 03:01:34 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA16922 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 03:01:34 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA16876 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 03:01:29 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23559; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 12:01:25 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA00596; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 12:01:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA16282; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 09:18:36 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507160718.JAA16282@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Help To: mrichards@unog.ch Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 09:18:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9507140538.AA28981@ungeneva.unog.ch> from "mrichards@unog.ch" at Jul 14, 95 08:25:00 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1240 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As mrichards@unog.ch wrote: > > > We just installed a copy of FreeBSD. The install program was great > but when we reboot the machine we recieve an error message saying that > the floppy is not configured correctly. In order to correct the > problem the set-up program must be run twice. First it must be set to > a non matching disk i.e.(360k) then reset it back to a 1.44 meg 3.5 > in. this allows us to reboot the machine with a dos diskette but when > we reboot with freebsd the same problem occurs. The PC is an AST > Premmia 4/66. When I tried to run sysinstall from the hd the I > received a message that said that there was no floppy in the 1.2 meg > drive. The program must be reconfiguring the set-up to a 1.2 meg > drive. I don't get the picture, sorry. Can you quote any messages, e.g. from the second virtual screen (Alt-F2), _literally_ here? Can you also quote all messages related to fdc0 and fd0 when the system is booting? (Remember, you can scroll back through those messages by hitting ScrLck and PgUp.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)