From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 28 09:52:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11645 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles219.castles.com [208.214.165.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11638 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:52:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA19780; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806281653.JAA19780@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Bill Paul cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jun 1998 11:54:26 EDT." <199806281554.LAA16209@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:53:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > floating around. One of them, which I think is a DSI, refuses to > run the FreeBSD boot block. (I say 'I think it's a DSI' because the > stupid machine doesn't have any identifying vendor markings on it > whatsoever.) Eyecch. > You can actually configure the thing to boot from internal disk, > floppy or CD-ROM. When I put the FreeBSD install floppy or CD-ROM > in and try to boot, it says 'Loading boot block from FLOPPY: FAILED' > or 'Loading boot block from CD-ROM: FAILED' and moves on to the > internal disk and loads LoseNT. > > As a hack, I dug up a set of MS-DOG 6.22 floppies and put an > ATAPI CD-ROM driver on one of them so that I could boot the laptop > in MS-DOG and access the FreeBSD install CD. From there I ran > fbsdboot.exe, and successfully loaded the install kernel. > > Clearly, the machine likes the MS-DOG bootstrap and the LoseNT > bootstrap, but not ours. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm clever > enough to find the exact problem myself, and I can't really load > FreeBSD on this machine since they need it with LoseNT (grrrr). Just out of curiosity, what happens if you take the "MSDOS" signature off the top of a DOS boot floppy and drop it onto the FreeBSD image? (I realise the resulting bootblock won't work, but it would tell us something about the criteria they're using.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message