Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 19:18:39 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: robertg@meaddata.com (Robert Gerdardy) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loop...Loop...Loop Message-ID: <199412271818.TAA27531@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <9412271343.AA18329@atom.meaddata.com> from "Robert Gerdardy" at Dec 27, 94 08:43:02 am
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> I have the 2.0 CD from Walnut Creek. > I made boot and cpio floppies from the CD according to the directions. OK. > When I boot my machine from the boot disk, I get a boot message which gives > some incomprehensible message, but says to just type <CR> for defaults. > If I do nothing, it procedes without me anyway. In any event, no matter what > I do, it then just reboots my machine, and then the message comes back, and > then it reboots my machine, and then ... What type of floppy controller and what machine is this ? Can you tell us more about that ? In the moment the only thing that comes to my mind is either your memory is not okay, then this will happen. The first thing is a memory test and if this fails it will simply reset the machine and then reboot again, reset , reboot ... Or the floppy controller gives troubles and doesn't read enough sectors in, so the boot program doesn't even find a correct kernel and runs wild. Do you even see a spinning cursor after the boot prompt and a testing memory image ? ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe
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