Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 18:42:50 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-connect.net> To: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-connect.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Boot Floppy Problem Message-ID: <XFMail.971115184250.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971115144646.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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Hi Simon Shapiro; On 15-Nov-97 you wrote: > Hi Y'all, > > At least since 13-Nov, but after 31-Oct, the boot floppy will install > everything OK (?) but the system will not boot afterwards; > > BootMGR displays all the partitions, etc., but pressing F2 for FreeBSD > (for > example), yields a ``?'' and another list of Fx buttons to push. > > If you have DOS on the system, it will be invoked fine from the bootmgr. > > No reasonable set of arguments to the boot FLOPPY kernel loader ends up > in > a booted system (from hard disk - booting from floppy obviously works). > > Any suggestion will be appreciated. > > This is on an IDE HD, IDE CD, P6-200, etc. machine which runs FreeBSD > fine > otherwise. I managed to solve the problem. Beat me if I know how :-( Essentially, what I did was to install some disk-ez ez-disk or whateveer the call it that comes with the IDE drive, then uninstall it, then ``format drive C:'' then install Doze, then install Unix again and now it works. We had similar (but a bit different) problem at work where an HP Vectra AX will not write the MBR at all, without error nor complaint! The only thing that worked was a ``low level format''. Seems like newer IDE drives are married to M$ product in some unholy matermony. I do not know enough of the internal details of this disgusting mess to comment further or offer a solution. Simon
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