From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 21:10:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA25666 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA25660 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00403; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:07:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Barry Mishler cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot from floppy In-Reply-To: <19960731235229.AAA5584@mishler.hughes.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Barry Mishler wrote: > I mailed questions@freebsd.org a couple of weeks ago concerning a problem I > have getting the FreeBSD boot disk to work at all on my computer. When I > boot it, I get the normal four or five lines of header and usage information > followed by the "boot:" prompt. But then about three seconds later, it goes > into a loop where it keeps printing > ERROR: C:0 H:0 S:0 > infinitely. Hm. Have you used a new floppy? Have you re-fetched the boot.flp image? Have you checked out your floppy drive and cable? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major