Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 14:44:36 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Hoffman <jeffh@cybernetics.net> To: Michael Quigley <michael@cybernetics.net> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 021095-SNAP Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950301144232.16747A-100000@server0> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950301104225.6261A-100000@ws0.cybernetics.net>
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On Wed, 1 Mar 1995, Michael Quigley wrote:
> I've not been able to boot the latest snapshot version on at least 3
> machines at my disposal. They are all of varying configurations and
> processors. Basically what happens, is that they lock up when trying to
> boot off the floppy. I've made my boot disk the same way I did with
> 2.0-RELEASE:
>
> dd if=<filename> of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
>
> With no luck. Any ideas?
I had this same thing happen to me. What always get me by it (this may
be totally different from what's happening with you) is to repeatedly tap
the num lock key while it's booting.
ie. hit turn on the computer, right before it hits the floppy start
tapping num lock until you see the FreeBSD boot prompt.
Don't ask me why this works, I have no clue, but it DOES work. My
computer would not boot (it would lock) any I did this and it fixed it.
Then I tried it again to make sure it wasn't a fluke.
-jeff
-- Jeff Hoffman -- jeffh@cybernetics.net -------------------------------------
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