Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:56:09 -0700 From: beau@webmaster.com (Beau Giles) To: William.Ying@ccgate.Barra.COM Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Reboot ... Reboot ... Reboot" - please add a subject Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960626235609.0097bb88@server.webmaster.com>
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Yes!! The boot now works.
I was running rawrite under an NT DOS prompt. I did notice that
rawrite wrote the floppy very quickly but didn't think that NT 3.51 was the
source of the problem. Thanks a lot for solving my problem. You should
probably add this to your installation notes.
-- Beau Giles
At 03:11 PM 6/26/96 PST, you wrote:
>It could be helpful if you format the diskette and run rawrite.exe under real
>MS-DOS. The problem could be caused by using a DOS emulator ( like command
>prompt from NT ). Try to find a machine with real MS-DOS 6.22 and create the
>boot diskette. I am not sure if the command prompt from 95, OS/2 or even
>IBM-DOS 6.3 will cause the problem. Please let me know if anybody has that
>experience.
>
>- Bill -
>
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>Subject:
>Author: beau@webmaster.com (Beau Giles) at UNIXGATE
>Date: 6/26/96 2:20 PM
>
>
> A few days ago I sent a message to this mailbox concerning some
>problems I am having installing FreeBSD on my 486.
>This was may question:
>
>>> I am attempting to load FreeBSD on a 486DX. I've created a boot
>>> floppy using boot.flp file. Upon booting the machine I get the standard
>>> expected message:
>>>
>>> >> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 640/15360 k of memory
>>> Use hd(1,a)/kernel to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed.
>>> Usage: [[fd(0,a)]/kernel][-abcCdhrsv]
>>> Use ? fro file list or press Enter for defaults
>>>
>>> Boot:
>>>
>>> After waiting a few seconds the machine reboots itself and the same screen
>>> appears again, and again, and again ... Using the ? option or the -c
>>> options has proved to be useless. In fact typing anything is useless,
since
>>> pressing enter starts the process over again with no change. Could you
>>> please give me some help as to where to go next.
>
>The answer received from dwhtie@resnet.uoregon.edu was as follows:
>
>>Sounds like a corrupted floppy.
>>
>>Here is my mantra of the week:
>>
>>1) Did you use an ERROR-FREE floppy?
>>2) Did you ftp via BINARY mode?
>>3) Did you boot back to MS-DOS mode if running Win95?
>>
>>If any of these are "no", then rectify and try again.
>
>All of these solutions failed to correct my problem. Is there anything else
>I can do to correct this problem?
>
>
>
> -- Beau Giles
> beau@webmaster.com
>
>
>
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