From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 13:47:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA11544 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homer21.u.washington.edu (durang@homer21.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA11531 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by homer21.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.06/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA128952; Tue, 23 Jul 96 13:47:06 -0700 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:47:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh To: Joe Zbiciak Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot standard boot floppy. In-Reply-To: <9607231414.AA03426@underpaid.micro.ti.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE on my machine at home. > I've been unsuccessful getting the standard boot floppy (boot.flp, I > believe) to boot. It dies shortly after several driver messages with > the something along these lines: > > "brkadrint: Illegal host access at 0x0" > > Do you have any suggestions? This configuration works fine under > Linux. (I certainly hope "Linux" isn't a dirty word around there.) (more about SCSI adaptor and other data in orig. message.) hmmmmm. Linsux wouldn't even boot on my machine, but FreeBSD runs fine. By any chance, would your processor be an AMD? (mine is) I think the standard reply to your question will be: Use a new floppy, re-FTP the boot.flp file using BINARY transfer, DON'T run rawrite.exe from Win95 or DOS7 when you make the boot floppy, and if it hangs, wait a while longer. As for the possibility of your SCSI causing the problem, I'll let a hacker answer that. Ken Marsh