Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:14:05 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer <current@schmalzbauer.de> Subject: Re: cdboot -BTX halted- failure Message-ID: <200406251614.05114.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200406252113.46968@harryhomeworkstation> References: <200406252113.46968@harryhomeworkstation>
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On Friday 25 June 2004 03:13 pm, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Dear best boys, > > I built a used-parts-server on which 4.10 runs flawlessly, that's what the > machine was designed for. > Just of curiosity I tried -current from yesterday. Booting from CD ends up > in endless scrolling screens which show register dumps. If I press <break> > at the right moment I can see the following lines: > > Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM > CD Loader 1.2 > > Building the boot loader arguments > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found You may have a buggy BIOS. You should still be able to boot from floppies, though. You will need 3 floppies, stick boot.flp, kern1.flp, and kern2.flp on them, boot from boot.flp and follow the directions. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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