Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:00:55 -0000 From: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net> To: "'Dan R. Daniels'" <mdiverda@nia.attmil.ne.jp, mdiverdan@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: HELP!!! Message-ID: <886CA0C095C5D411B95400508B6F7412866025@ukcamexch4.cam.uk.internal>
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I would try remaking the boot floppies. I tend to use rawrite.exe, which is also on the dist CD's. It might be worth while using new, unused floppies. See how you get on. You'll have to do both disks manually, and I'm not aware of any problems with doing this under Win2K. Good luck... Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan R. Daniels [mailto:mdiverda@nia.attmil.ne.jp] > Sent: 04 December 2000 09:48 > To: questions@FreeBSD.org; support@cdrom.com > Subject: HELP!!! > Importance: High > > Dear Sirs, > I recently received my FreeBSD 4.4 CDROM Set (4 CDROMs), and am having > trouble getting past the boot up process. First let me set your mind at > ease, I have a very good understanding of computer hardware, software, and > configuration from all the way through MSDOS 3.23 through Win 2000 Pro and > have classroom experience recently with Unix System Administrator Course > (Free BSD). Hopefully you should not have to start with did you turn the > computer on question..... Anyway, The following is a list of my hardware, > current O/S and synopsis of what I have done and what the result was: > > Hardware: > ASUS P2B-F AGP Mainboard & Award Bios > Intel Pentium II, 350mhz Celeron > 128MB 168 pin DIMM Memory module > 18Gbyte Hardrive space (3 Physical Drives) > Matrox Millenium G200 8MB SGRAM AGP > TEAC CD-524E IDE CDROM Drive > Matsushita CW-7582 IDE CDR Drive > IOMEGA Zip 250 > Stdrd 3.5" Floppy Drive > > Current O/S: > Win 2000 Professional V 5.00.2195 > > Synopsis of events undertaken: > Action: Modified BIOS to allow CDROM Boot > Result: Would not boot from CDROM gave the following error: > "CDROM Boot Failure" > > Actions Taken: Read all txt files in the FreeBSD CDROM Root, > Floppies, tools directories, and > and followed instructions on setting up boot > floppies as follows: > > Step 1. Modified BIOS to allow CDROM Boot: > Received the following symptom: > > "CDROM Boot Failure" > > Step 2. Formatted floppies from in Win 2000 Pro utilizing the > makeflp.exe located in FreeBSD > CDROM Root, and it asked for 1 disk for the kern.flp > and one for mfsroot.flp and > the process completed with no problems. > Step 3. Transferred image files from in Win 2000 Pro by > running the FDimage.exe file to transfer > image files of the kern and mfsroot .flp files to > each of their respective disks. > There were no errors displayed. > Step 4. Re-Modified BIOS to boot primarily from A : Drive. > Step 5. Put Floppy with Kern.flp into floppy drive and > rebooted computer. Received the > following symptoms: > > Disk Error 0x10 (lba=0xd8) > Invalid Format > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:fd(0:a)/kernel > boot: > No /kernel > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:fd(0:a)/kernel > boot: > > NOTE: Cursor left flashing immediately following second > "boot:" and no further action > from computer. > > Step 6. Started at Step 1 again and retried each step, > resulting in identical results. > > > I am assuming that by the errors given that my computer will not support > booting from CDROM, and the boot process could not find the kernel on the > floppy disk, but I did not receive any errors when transferring the image > file. Can you provide me some assistance? I am sure there is something > that I have overlooked, or did incorrectly and greatly appreciate what > ever assistance you can provide. Thanks in advance and look forward to > your response. > > Point of contact Data: > Evening Phone: (Japan) 011 81 568 72 5935 > Email: mdiverdan@hotmail.com > mdiverda@nia.attmil.ne.jp > danielsd@mailyo.ftscpac.navy.mil > > Dan R. Daniels > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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