Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 01:14:48 +0200 From: "Amir Hardon" <a_hardon@netvision.net.il> To: <kstewart@urx.com>, "Brian Sheppard" <bsheppard@webstream.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation Message-ID: <000b01c00d57$f20b0c20$6287003e@laptop>
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I created the floppies once with fdimage and once with dd(From slackware), I do insert the kern.flp floppy first. I can't set all the devices in the boot sequence to be the floppy(I'm using Award BIOS), I don't get any error message, the computer loads the next device in the boot sequence, I tried bootiing with this floppy on 2 computers, it didn't work on both. -----Original Message----- From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Brian Sheppard <bsheppard@webstream.net> Cc: Amir Hardon <a_hardon@netvision.net.il>; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Date: יום חמישי 24 אוגוסט 2000 00:03 Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation > > >Brian Sheppard wrote: >> >> When booting from the FreeBSD floppy, does the floppy drive read the disk >> but reject it? What error does it show? System failure, not a valid system >> disk, etc. No prompt or message at all? In the BIOS, do boot up floppy >> seek and make the first, second and third devices all the floppy drive. >> >> Also, the kern.flp is first. Then it asks for mfs one > >I also wonder if the floppies were created with fdimage. When you use >the files on the CDROM and windows to create the FreeBSD boot >floppies, you can cd \floppies and then create the floppies using >"..\tools\fdimage kern.flp a:" and similarly for mfsroot.flp. > >Kent > >> >> Brian >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Amir Hardon" <a_hardon@netvision.net.il> >> To: <kstewart@urx.com> >> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 6:53 PM >> Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation >> >> > Well, in the BIOS boot sequence the floppy is first, >> > I tried replacing the FreeBSD floppy wth Windows98 floppy and the 98 >> floppy >> > booted. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> >> > To: Amir Hardon <a_hardon@netvision.net.il> >> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >> > Date: ??? ????? 23 ?????? 2000 23:47 >> > Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation >> > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > >Amir Hardon wrote: >> > >> >> > >> There is no error message, the computer simply boots into the current >> > >> installed system. >> > >> I'm made the kernerl floppy ut of kern.flp found in the floppies >> > directory >> > >> on the CD, >> > >> I burned the CD out of a iso file that I downloaded in binary mode. >> > > >> > >It sounds like your bios is set to boot from you HD. I tried making >> > >the floppies from the 4.1-iso I downloaded and they booted my system >> > >just fine. >> > > >> > >Kent >> > > >> > >> >> > >> -----Original Message----- >> > >> From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> >> > >> To: Amir Hardon <a_hardon@netvision.net.il> >> > >> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >> > >> Date: ??? ????? 23 ?????? 2000 23:33 >> > >> Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation >> > >> >> > >> >* Amir Hardon <a_hardon@netvision.net.il> [000823 14:18] wrote: >> > >> >> Hello all, >> > >> >> I downloaded FreeBSD 4.1 iso image, and burned it. >> > >> >> I can't boot from the CD, >> > >> >> so I created boot floppies but the kernel floopy doesn't boot. >> > >> >> What should I do? >> > >> > >> > >> >What kernel boot floppy? Where did you get it from? Are you >> > >> >sure you downloaded it in binary mode? What size is it and what >> > >> >is it's name? >> > >> > >> > >> >-Alfred >> > >> > >> > >> >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >> > >-- >> > >Kent Stewart >> > >Richland, WA >> > > >> > >mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com >> > >http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html >> > >FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- >Kent Stewart >Richland, WA > >mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com >http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html >FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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