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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:52:12 -0400
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Kyle Peterson <kyle_peterson1@hotmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Tech Support <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Free BSD v3.4 Bootdisk problems
Message-ID:  <20000408155212.A14643@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000408193254.87845.qmail@hotmail.com>; from kyle_peterson1@hotmail.com on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:22:23PM -0600
References:  <20000408193254.87845.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:22:23PM -0600, Kyle Peterson wrote:
> I am having this strange problem when trying to boot with the kern.flp image
> on my Compaq Pressario computer.  When I try to boot from the disk the
> computer starts to read the floppy, but then the screen stays black and that
> is as far as it gets.  If I try the exact same disk on any one of my other
> machines it works fine.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you
> very much.

Is the floppy drive broken?

Have you tried another floppy like a MS-DOS, Windows boot disk, or
Linux boot floppy?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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