Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 13:29:32 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SNAP boot problem Message-ID: <m0rxKes-000r3uC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 1995 12:47:09 -0600." <9504051847.AA00865@cs.weber.edu>
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>>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
>>>>> "sab" == Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com>
sab> I've tried using both RAWRITE & RAWRITE3 from the tools/dos-tools
sab> directory to put a gunzip'd boot.flp.gz onto a 3.5" diskette, then boot
sab> from that.
Terry> Try using an unzipped image in the first place (instead of unzipping
Terry> a zipped image (maybe the zipped version is corrupt?)
I've now tried that. I've tried various combinations of:
2.0-950322-SNAP boot.flp
2.0-950210-SNAP boot.flp
and
my home PC (P5-90, DOS 6.22): tools/dos-tools/rawrite.exe (i.e. v1.2)
home PC (DOS): tools/dos-tools/rawrite3.zip (i.e. the v1.3 .exe file in there)
home PC (Linux): dd if=boot.flp bs=8192 of=/dev/fd0
Today, at work, I made some floppies using
SunOS 4.x SPARC: dd if=boot.flp bs=8192 of=/dev/rfd0c
work PC (486/66, NT 3.1): rawrite (v1.2)
And I'll give those a try. I'll try pulling as many cards out of my home
PC as I can get away with to see if maybe there is some funky interaction
there, but since I don't know what happens when, I don't know if it is
even getting far enough to care what cards I've got in my PC. At the
moment, I've got things connected like this:
Pentium-90; 16 Mb RAM; 256K cache
CAF Tech motherboard / SiS chipset / Award 4.50G BIOS
PCI IDE - boot disk
NCR 8150S PCI SCSI - Toshiba 3501 CDROM
Adaptec AHA1542B SCSI (ISA) - Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm drive
ATI Mach64 (2Mb)/17" display
Sound Blaster AWE32
floppy/2S/1P/game card
one 3.5" floppy drive; no 5.25" floppy drive
I can try pulling the 2 SCSI cards and the SB AWE32 to see if I can get
the boot disc to fly. Is there anything in that configuration that looks
like a red flag to somebody?
Terry> There are recent floppy changes. Jordan can point you at newer binaries.
Would they have been put in the 2.0-950322-SNAP/floppies directory? I
remember seeing some messages about this on one of the lists, but can't
remember the final word on them.
Looking for hints, clues, more caffeine, nirvana, help...
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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