From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 14:11:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA22088 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 14:11:36 -0700 Received: from igate1.hac.com (igate1.HAC.COM [192.48.33.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA22082 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 14:11:27 -0700 From: Eddy_M_Cheung_at_11-ECS-4@CCGATE.HAC.COM Received: from ises01.ES.HAC.COM ([147.16.5.2]) by igate1.hac.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07423; Mon, 2 Oct 95 14:08:50 PDT Received: by ises01.ES.HAC.COM; id AA25983; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 14:10:55 -0700 Received: from cc:Mail by CCGATE.HAC.COM id AA812668208; Mon, 02 Oct 95 17:02:54 PST Date: Mon, 02 Oct 95 17:02:54 PST Encoding: 13 Text Message-Id: <9509028126.AA812668208@CCGATE.HAC.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I was trying to install the binaries of FreeBSD 2.0.5 and I received the message: "matcd0: get_stat: After reading status byte, bus didn't go idle ff 6f 230" while booting from the boot floppy. The machine is a Micron Pentium 100 with 540M hard drive, Sony ATAPI CD-ROM, Stealth Video card, 8M memory, 3 1/2 floppy drive, sound card, fax/modem, etc. Your help is greatly appreciated!