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Date:      Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:38:41 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        dunc@netcom.com (Kevet Duncombe)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i386/1809: floppy boot code causes reboot of computer
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970125183841.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199701250700.XAA22158@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Kevet Duncombe on Jan 24, 1997 23:00:02 -0800
References:  <199701250700.XAA22158@freefall.freebsd.org>

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As Kevet Duncombe wrote:

>  Hi.. I tried to install 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CD last night.
>  Booting from a floppy gets me to the first boot prompt, but pressing
>  return or -c return causes a reset before it writes any messages.  I
>  found P.R. i386/1809 while looking for a solution, and tried using
>  ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/jkh/boot.flp as it suggested.  For what
>  it's worth, it didn't help in my case.

PR i386/1809 is apparently stale, and should be closed.  Floppy boot
used to work fine for years now.

You either have a serious problem with bad memory, or your system
stumples across the often-reported stack corruption problem.

Don't try this old boot image (Jordan, can't you remove that), but
instead, try the most recent FreeBSD 2.2(-BETA) or 3.0-SNAP boot
floppy, and tell us whether this one worked.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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