From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 00:40:57 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA06338 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 00:40:57 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA06330 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 00:40:49 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA04125; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 17:38:49 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508180808.RAA04125@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Install: error on boot To: peterd@asiaonline.net (Peter Danford) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 17:38:48 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Peter Danford" at Aug 18, 95 02:50:45 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 954 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Peter Danford stands accused of saying: > 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. at the boot: prompt, type '-c'.. When the config> prompt appears, type 'disable matcd0' and then 'quit'. You'll need to do this every time you boot from the floppy, and the first time you boot from the harddisk. > Peter -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[