From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 18 06:59:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA05775 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from f42.hotmail.com (F42.hotmail.com [207.82.250.53]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA05763 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by f42.hotmail.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA26493; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704181357.GAA26493@f42.hotmail.com> Received: from 147.159.241.247 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:57:23 PDT X-Originating-IP: [147.159.241.247] From: "Michael Hampton" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Creating FreeBSD boot floppy Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:57:23 PDT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am having trouble creating and/or using a FreeBSD boot floppy on my PC. It's a 486DX/66. I am pretty sure the problem is in the creation of the boot disk using fdimage. At the DOS prompt I entered the following line: fdimage -f 1.44M -v boot.flp a: I got the prompt to enter a floppy in drive a: (which I did), and then the information regarding the formatting of the various tracks. When it got to the point of the operation regarding writing, I got the following lines: Writing cyl 0 hd 0 Sector not found When I tried to boot my machine with this disk, the PC kept rebooting after telling me that it couldn't find the kernel. Any ideas? Mike Hampton --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------