From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 13:29:53 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA18942 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 13:29:53 -0700 Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.125.110]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA18935 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 13:29:49 -0700 Received: by main.statsci.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0rxKes-000r3uC; Fri, 7 Apr 95 13:29 PDT Message-Id: To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), jkh@freefall.cdrom.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SNAP boot problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 1995 12:47:09 -0600." <9504051847.AA00865@cs.weber.edu> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 13:29:32 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert >>>>> "sab" == Scott Blachowicz 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