From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 29 14:35:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18970 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:35:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from smith.crayola.cse.psu.edu (smith.crayola.cse.psu.edu [130.203.2.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18964 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:35:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from brickred.crayola.cse.psu.edu by smith.crayola.cse.psu.edu id <14344-2>; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 17:34:30 -0500 Subject: Compaq Presario will not boot with boot.flp From: Brian S Wasserman To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 17:34:41 -0500 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Message-Id: <95Dec29.173430est.14344-2@smith.crayola.cse.psu.edu> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have a the computer mentioned above. RAWRITE works fine for me since I have used it many times in the past without any difficulty. I am positive that the disk I am writing to has no defects. My boot disk was not created in a multitasking environment, so there is no problem caused by preemption. My hardware setup is as follow: 486DX2-66, 8 megs RAM ISA Bus 2x SCSI CD-ROM 525 meg IDE, 1.6 gig EIDE drives --> 525 meg is connected to the IDE controller built into the motherboard --> 1.6 gig is on an EIDE controller which works perfectly in DOS and W95 (controller is from SIIG, Inc.) HP/Colorado T1000 tape backup drive - connected to the floppy controller SB compatible 16-bit sound card 1.44 meg floppy drive I know that FBSD 1.x has problems with Compaq computers, but the documentation says it is fixed in later versions. NetBSD 1.x will boot fine. FBSD 2.05 and 2.1 are the two which will not work. I want to get FBSD 2.1 up and running. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Also, if anybody has experienced this problem or has installed FBSD 2.1 on a Compaq then I would love to hear from you... what did you do different than the README and FAQ files instruct? Thank you, Brian