Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:12:38 -0700 (PDT) From: dragona@interaccess.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/20776: Cannot boot the install floppy for version 4.1 Message-ID: <20000822081238.4F67C37B424@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 20776 >Category: kern >Synopsis: Cannot boot the install floppy for version 4.1 >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 22 01:20:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Derek Ragona >Release: 4.1 >Organization: Computing Innovations >Environment: I cannot boot to get this information >Description: When I try to boot the boot 4.1 floppy, the bootstrap loader cannot resolve which disk it is booting from. Yet, I am loading the bootstrap from the floppy, which then the bootstrap cannot find to load the boot from. Somehow the bootstrap is not finding the floppy drive from which it is loading itself. This doesn't seem to make sense. This is a VL-bus motherboard running a Pentium 60 CPU, 64 MB RAM, floppy controller on the motherboard, Adaptec 2840 SCSI card, 2 SCSI hard disks, 2 SCSI CD-ROM disks, 1 SCSI 4mm DAT tape drive. Here is the entire messages that are displayed: ============================================================== BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 BIOS 639KB/1070100KB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (jkh@ref4.freebsd.org, Fri Jul 28 12:39:58 GMT 2000) can't workout which disk we are booting from Guessed BIOS device 0x0 not found by probes, defaulting to disk0 Hit [Enter] to boot immediately or any key for command prompt Booting [Kernel] . . . can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help ok =============================================================== >How-To-Repeat: Simply put in the boot floppy and boot the PC. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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