Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 10:01:06 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: SNAP boot problem Message-ID: <m0rwYS4-000r3vC@main.statsci.com>
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Since the silence on -hackers and -current for this message was so
deafening, let's try a slightly reworded version to -questions on for
size... :-))
I just pulled down the 950322-SNAP tree to use as my first attempt at
installing FreeBSD on my home system. That system is:
Pentium-90; 16 Mb RAM; 256K cache
CAF Tech motherboard / SiS chipset / Award 4.50G BIOS
PCI IDE - boot disk
NCR 8150S PCI SCSI - Toshiba 3501 CDROM, Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm drive
ATI Mach64 (2Mb)/17" display
Sound Blaster AWE32
floppy/2S/1P/game card
one 3.5" floppy drive; no 5.25" floppy drive
I've tried using both RAWRITE & RAWRITE3 from the tools/dos-tools
directory to put a gunzip'd boot.flp.gz onto a 3.5" diskette, then boot
from that. My first attempt (with RAWRITE) ended up having my boot
process completely ignore the inserted diskette. My 2nd & 3rd attempts
using RAWRITE3 ended up just sitting there spinning the diskette drive for
a while with no output to my screen before I came back and tried
CTRL-ALT-DEL with no results and the RESET button. I then pulled the boot
floppy out. The reboot sequence got to the point where I think it
normally scans the system & spits out the Award BIOS banner and just hung.
I power cycled and got the same hang. I then turned the system off for a
while and turned it back on - it came up fine.
After all that, I repeated the same business with a the 950210-SNAP
boot.flp and got the same results.
Possible explanations?
1) Do I really need a 1.2Mb 5.25" drive in order to use that boot.flp
image? If so, what are the chances of getting a 1.4M 3.5" drive
boot.flp image? It seems many systems are shipped without 5.25" drives
these days.
2) Is there something about my machine configuration that is confusing the
boot code?
So, does anyone have any idea
1) what I'm doing wrong?
2) how I can do it right?
3) what the heck is happening here?
4) has anyone successfully booted the SNAPs using the supplied boot.flp on
a 1.4M 3.5" drive?
help? [whimper]
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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