Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:03:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: manning@uclink4.berkeley.edu Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: boot install disk on multia Message-ID: <199911290803.AAA02716@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Nov 1999 23:56:30 PST." <384231AE.69FEAFF9@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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> Let me clarify the problem with the disk boot. > > It gets all the way through the kern.flp load, and asks for the > mfsroot.flp. It starts that ok, with the usual errors (about > over/underruns) and then dumps a whole bunch of stuff on the screen, in > the form of: > > ----------------------------------- > --------------------------- > --------------------------- > --------------------------- > --------------------------- > --------------------------- > --------------------------- > > repeated. mostly numbers... some hex... any ideas besides the zip disk > one? I AM thinking about the that but, i dont HAVE a zip drive, so i'd > have to borrow one... what did you use? the scsi one? I'd think that's > the only one you could boot from. And i don't know anyone with one of > those. Your floppy drive is probably screwed. You may want to try updating to the latest SRM, which does a little better with the floppy drive, as well as trying a couple of new floppies (if you haven't already). Aside from that, you're really down to a network install, which is not particularly easy. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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