From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Oct 6 10:22:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA00999 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 10:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00961 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 10:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA19166; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 19:21:52 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA18760; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 19:21:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA08858; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 19:14:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610061714.TAA08858@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot To: kwfjndpw@netural.com (kwfjndpw) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 19:14:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610061437.JAA17036@mournblade.netural.com> from kwfjndpw at "Oct 6, 96 09:37:51 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As kwfjndpw wrote: > My system is vanilla. What system is it? RAM? Motherboard? CPU? > I have been successful in booting with Linux > on my system. I don't understand why FreeBSD can't read my floppy. > My hard disk is IDE (I assume my floppy controller is on the IDE > card). After the system boots through the boot ROM, it does a quick > read to the floppy, then silence. The screen is blank and no further > reads occur on the floppy. I preformatted the floppy with /u to > wipe it clean. Then I ran rawrite.exe to copy boot4.flp to the > floppy disk. Not that it would help anything, but why `boot4.flp'? It's the cut- down version for 4 MB only systems (with a few oddball drivers being stripped). The strange thing is that this is in no way FreeBSD's part yet. Everything up to there is still a matter of the BIOS only. Have you tried the same floppy in a random another machine, just to see whether it will boot there? (No risk, simply hit the Big Red Button after the sysinstall screen got up. Nothing will be damaged in the host machine by this.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)