Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:02:24 +0300 From: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@lmf.ericsson.se> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fixit floppy troubles in 3.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19981021080224.00c6d100@openmail.lmf.ericsson.se>
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I am trying to use the fixit floppy in my fresh 3.0-RELEASE
installation. But...
I boot the pc with the installation floppy, and try to mount the
fixit floppy. The is the whole sequence:
Please insert a writable fixit floppy and press return
So I remove the boot floppy, insert the fixit floppy and prerss Enter.
At this points the following message is printed to the debug
console (Alt+F2)
DEBUG: Init floppy called for some distribution
The sysinstall says now
Please insert floppy in floppy drive unit A
Why? It just wanted to insert and press return. Why again? Well, anyway...
The floppy is already in there, so I press Enter. On the bebug console these
two messages appear
mountmsdosfs: bad bpb
DEBUG: initFloppy: mounted floppy /dev/fd0 successfully on /mnt2
I guess the first line is ok, since it is not a mdsos file system.
And from the second line I assume that the floppy gets mounted ok.
But the sad part is here -- the sysinstall just gets looped now.
I says again
Please insert a writable fixit floppy and press return
and stays here for ever. I can't switch with Alt+F4 to a shells
and I can't jump out of the "Please insert..." dialog. So I have
to press Ctrl+Alt+Del and exit the installation. It seems like
the shell is not started on the fourth console?
The fixit floppy itself is ok, since I can mount it manually after
booting the pc from the hard disk and use the programs there. So no
download corruption is involved in this case. Any ideas whats wrong?
I must admit that I've never seen this before, everything worked
just fine in 2.2.x.
Thanks in advance,
Martti
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