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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:20:00 -0300 (EST)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems booting 2.2-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199606242020.RAA15887@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br>

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// From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
// Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:20:13 -0700 (PDT)
// Subject: Re: Problems boot 2.2-SNAP
// 
// On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:
// 
// >   I'm trying to install 2.2-SNAP on my desktop machine, which is already
// > running 2.1.0-RELEASE.  But both 960501 and 960612 SNAPs could not boot
// > in it.
// > 
// >   It loads from the floppy, uncompresses itself and print the message
// > "Booting ...".  After this, nothing more happens.  I have installed
// > it on other machines, so I think it's not my fault.
// > 
// >   This machine is a 486DX2/66, 40 MB RAM (no parity), Chipset ALI, VESA BUS,
// > Cirrus SVGA, NE2000 NIC, 2 IDE Drives.
// 
// I chant the mantra:
// 
// 1)  Is it an ERROR-FREE floppy?

Yes.  I used it to install other machines.

// 2)  Was the image downloaded in BINARY mode?

See above...

// 3)  If you are running under Win95, are you booting to MS-DOS to write 
// the image?

I'm doing an upgrade from 2.1-RELEASE.  I used dd.  :)

Windows-NT ->  Windows ?  No Thanks !

// Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
// Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
// http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major

The curious thing is that 2.1-R runs PERFECTLY.

					Jonny

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Joao Carlos Mendes Luis			jonny@gta.ufrj.br
+55 21 290-4698 ( Job )			jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br
Network Manager				UFRJ/COPPE/CISI
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro



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