Date: Wed, 28 Dec 94 08:43:58 EST From: robertg@meaddata.com (Robert Gerdardy) To: ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loop...Loop...Loop Message-ID: <9412281343.AA00492@atom.meaddata.com>
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Andreas, > That is very early. At that point the booter just tried to read the second > block with the help of the bios from the floppy. > Can you check, that the floppy types are set correctly in the BIOS ? > DOS can work with wrong values in the BIOS, it looks also on the floppies > and decides the size from them. But FreeBSD trusts the BIOS values. The machine has 2 floppies, one 5.25 and one 3.5. Originally, the 5.25 was A: and the 3.5 was B:. I had to switch them, because OS/2 warp will only boot from 3.5 on A:. According to instructions from Gateway, I swapped the two cable connectors, and then I went into the BIOS setup program and changed them there also. Is it possible that this change does not get recorded in such a way that FreeBSD can find it? > > Another possibility can be a bad floppy, can you also try another > floppy ? The floppy must also be error-free to work with UNIX. If > a DOS format says anything about bad sectors, use another floppy. It is a brand new, preformatted disk. I did not check the formatting, but there were no complaints when I wrote it using the mkflppy script. Bob
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