Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 21:58:59 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: michael@cybernetics.net (Michael Quigley) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 021095-SNAP Message-ID: <199503012059.VAA13205@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950301104225.6261A-100000@ws0.cybernetics.net> from "Michael Quigley" at Mar 1, 95 10:44:46 am
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As 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 (btw., you need to add an option ``conv=osync'' and convert the ``bs'' to ``obs'' for the cpio.flp file -- it is *not* a multiple of the sector size) Can you please be more verbose about the lock up? When does it happen, what do you see, what can you do? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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