From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jun 15 4: 7: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9A814C3B for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 04:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E657D18F7; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE5A49CC; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:06:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Roger Hardiman Cc: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy boot problems on old PC In-Reply-To: <37662749.794B@cs.strath.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Roger Hardiman wrote: > > In one case, the computer thinks the floppy disk does > not contain anything botable. Some old BIOSes checked specifically for DOS signature, and if not found they proudly announced they couldn't find any OS on the disk. > > In another case, I get Disk Error 0x02 (lba=0x10). I don't remember the final conclusion, but this problem has been solved on freebsd-small. I.e. the reason was found - I don't remember any soplution, that is ... ;-) Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message