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From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: Loop...Loop...Loop
To: robertg@meaddata.com (Robert Gerdardy)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 19:18:39 +0059 (MET)
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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 ?


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