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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:50:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Derek Ragona <dragona@interaccess.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/20776: Cannot boot the install floppy for version 4.1 
Message-ID:  <200008222350.QAA85984@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/20776; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Derek Ragona <dragona@interaccess.com>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/20776: Cannot boot the install floppy for version 4.1 
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:47:26 -0500

 Sheldon,
 
 I had a thought.  The system has an Adaptec 2840 SCSI adapter, and perhaps
 the bootstrap sees the SCSI adapter, and expects the floppies to be
 connected to it (which could be the case if a 2842 were used, and the
 floppy controller on it enabled) and doesn't probe further to the
 motherboard floppy controller.
 
 	-Derek
 
 At 05:53 PM 8/22/00 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
 >
 >
 >On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:40:09 EST, Derek Ragona wrote:
 >
 >> I experimented with the two floppies, mfsroot, and boot floppy.
 >
 >Experimented?  What were you using before, boot.flp?  Do you really have
 >such a high capacity floppy drive?
 >
 >Also, what kind of floppy drive do you have?  Nothing special?
 >
 >Ciao,
 >Sheldon.
 >
 >
 


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