Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:20:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems boot 2.2-SNAP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960621231900.741H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606181449.LAA11741@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br>
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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > I'm trying to install 2.2-SNAP on my desktop machine, which is already > running 2.1.0-RELEASE. But both 960501 and 960612 SNAPs could not boot > in it. > > It loads from the floppy, uncompresses itself and print the message > "Booting ...". After this, nothing more happens. I have installed > it on other machines, so I think it's not my fault. > > This machine is a 486DX2/66, 40 MB RAM (no parity), Chipset ALI, VESA BUS, > Cirrus SVGA, NE2000 NIC, 2 IDE Drives. I chant the mantra: 1) Is it an ERROR-FREE floppy? 2) Was the image downloaded in BINARY mode? 3) If you are running under Win95, are you booting to MS-DOS to write the image? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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