From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 30 09:42:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA14133 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (vince@venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA14124 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA09433; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:42:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Gavin Cameron cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System Commander & 2.2.2R Boot Floppy In-Reply-To: <199707301420.AAA19265@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Gavin Cameron wrote: > > Another thing was that since my FreeBSD is on my second hard drive > > (wd1a), after installing System Commander 3.05, it would just say Read > > Error even before it showed anything from the bootstrap. Same case with > > using the 2.2.2R boot floppy if booted through system commander. The only > > booting method that works is booting the boot floppy and putting in > > wd(1,0)kernel to boot from the hard drive at the boot floppy. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Here's what I got back from the V Communications when I reported the same > problem. > > > Let's try this...At the System Commander main menu at boot time hit ALT+S. > > From here highlight but do not hit enter the global special options menu, > > and then hit the ALT+F9 keys to bring up the internal options menu. If the > > choice for clear items is set to memory, change it to no by using your right > > arrow key with that line highlighted. If it does not work write me again. > > > Hope this helps. This does work, Thanks. When I called V-Tech, all they did was replace my 3.01 floppy with 3.05 which had the same problem. Does anyone know what the contents of the boot disk is supposed to be? I made three floppies using rawrite, fdimage as well as under FreeBSD and all three just show only a kernel file on the entire disk. I can see the fixit floppy was made correctly. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]