From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 9 12:35:37 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA25251 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 12:35:37 -0700 Received: from zonk.geko.com.au (root@zonk.geko.com.au [203.2.239.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA25241 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 12:35:32 -0700 Received: from zappa.arksoft.com.au (arksoftgeko.com.au@dialup09.geko.com.au [203.2.239.246]) by zonk.geko.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id FAA02098; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 05:32:25 +1000 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 05:32:25 +1000 Message-Id: <199509091932.FAA02098@zonk.geko.com.au> X-Sender: arksoft@203.2.239.2 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: Andrew Khoo - ArkSoft Systems Subject: Re: FreeBSD setup problem Cc: Julian Elischer Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 15:05 08/09/95 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >> the problem is this: when i insert the FreeBSD 2.0 boot floppy, everything >> goes according to plan until it attempts to mount the floppy device as the >> root filesystem. it then panics and reboots. after the reboot, my bios >> tells me that the floppy drive is not correct. i then enter my CMOS setup, >> and save & exit (my floppy is, indeed, still correct in the setup). hmmm... >> both MS-DOS and Linux (ugh, which is worse?) load and operate without error. > >do try a newer disk.. I just did a 2.0.5R install last week using FTP images from archie.au. The boot.flp in UPGRADES presented the same problem above. Using the old boot.flp image from /floppies allowed me to properly complete the install. >+----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ >| __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment >| / \ julian@ref.tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange >| ( OZ ) 300 lakeside Dr. oakland CA. \___ ___ | country ! >+- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 645-3137(wk) \_/ \\ > v My sympathies :)...i also suffer the same fate every few months :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Khoo | ArkSoft Systems | Email arksoft@geko.com.au 34 Portman Street | Phone +61-2-310-3315 Zetland NSW 2017 | Fax +61-2-310-3362 AUSTRALIA | GSM +61-41-486-1234 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------