From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 1 18:48:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA16425 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 13:05:22 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA16342; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 13:02:24 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA05123; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 21:59:38 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id VAA10461; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 21:59:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA13205; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 21:59:00 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503012059.VAA13205@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 021095-SNAP To: michael@cybernetics.net (Michael Quigley) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 21:58:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Michael Quigley" at Mar 1, 95 10:44:46 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 782 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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= 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. ;-)