Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:06:50 -0700 (PDT) From: gri@aif.ru To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/20254: BTX loader 1.00 can not recognize floppy as boot device Message-ID: <20000728150650.BE1F037C230@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 20254 >Category: misc >Synopsis: BTX loader 1.00 can not recognize floppy as boot device >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 28 08:10:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gregory Orlov >Release: 3.4-Release >Organization: Argumenty & Fakty >Environment: not available >Description: When I try to boot from the installation floppy, loader reports: "BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 693/64512kB (jkh@time.cdrom.com,....) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x0 not found by probes, defauling to disk0: " My computer is ALR Evolution V (EISA bus, Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS v1.00.32B 05/25/93) There are also AHA-1542C and AHA-1540B installed on it. So, I have 3 floppy controllers - 1 of them enabled (no matter which one) and 2 disabled. MS-DOS, MS-Windows and Linux can use thise floppy with any problems. >How-To-Repeat: reboot, reboot ... >Fix: throwaway old computers or do not use new programs :) >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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