Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:21:27 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: hamptonm@hotmail.com (Michael Hampton) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating FreeBSD boot floppy Message-ID: <199704181821.UAA19621@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199704181357.GAA26493@f42.hotmail.com> from Michael Hampton at "Apr 18, 97 06:57:23 am"
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Michael Hampton wrote: > 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 The most obvious explanation is a suspect floppy disk/drive. Questions: Did you try to create a boot floppy more than once, using different floppy disks? Can you DOS format the disks without errors? Is this a 1.44M or 2.88M drive? > 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? As there was an error creating the boot image, this isn't too surprising. :-) -- Robert Nordier
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