From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 23:49:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA04992 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:49:43 -0700 Received: from asiaonline.net (mail.asiaonline.net [202.85.0.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA04986 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:49:37 -0700 Received: by asiaonline.net (AsiaOnLine-Gateway) id AA02350; Fri, 18 Aug 95 14:50:46 HKT Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 14:50:45 +0800 (HKT) From: Peter Danford To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install: error on boot Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi -- I get the error message (endless loop) when booting from floppy or the 2.0.5 CD while trying to install: matcd0: getstat: After reading status byte, bus didn't go idle ff f 230 It seems to boot fine until it gets to that point. My CD is a SCSI Pioneer DR-U124X, system is Pentium-100, 16meg. Any help appreciated! Peter