From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 15:12:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795BE37B400; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:12:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0LNC9u28668; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:12:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200101212312.f0LNC9u28668@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: Does anyone know how to let fd0.1720 be bootable? In-Reply-To: <20010121195839.C6250@tao.org.uk> from Josef Karthauser at "Jan 21, 2001 7:58:39 pm" To: joe@tao.org.uk (Josef Karthauser) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:12:09 -0800 (PST) Cc: rizzo@aciri.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:19:17PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > I think this is a BIOS issue. I don't think any BIOS will let you > > > boot from arbitrarily-formatted floppies :) > > > > the 1480 format works. > > Have you got this working now - or was it the larger size that didn't > work? 1480 always worked for me on the system i tried -- except on vmware. i it was the 1720k format where i had problems which i could not solve despite a number of different attempts at telling the bios that i was using 21 sectors/track. cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message