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Date:      Tue, 06 Jun 2000 09:10:09 -0500
From:      Derek Ragona <dragona@interaccess.com>
To:        alfred@FreeBSD.org, alfred@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/16901: cannot boot 3.4 floppies
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20000606091009.007eb530@pop.interaccess.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006060927.CAA90588@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Yes, other bootable floppies boot.  I can boot MS-DOS, etc.  

In fact the FreeBSD bootstrap loads from the floppy, but the  hardware
discovery doesn't list the floppy drive as present, so it can't load the
kernel from the floppy.  This is as far as it gets in the boot process.

This is an ALR Evolution V desktop system, ALR VL local bus motherboard,
Phoenix BIOS, Pentium 60 64 MB RAM, Teac 1.44 floppy disk, Adaptec VL SCSI
board with 2 SCSI hard disks 2 SCSI CD-ROMs 1 SCSI tape drive, NO IDE devices.

	-Derek

At 02:27 AM 6/6/00 -0700, alfred@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>Synopsis: cannot boot 3.4 floppies
>
>State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
>State-Changed-By: alfred
>State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 6 02:23:50 PDT 2000
>State-Changed-Why: 
>Needs more input from user, can you please provide more information
>such as motherboard type and floppy drive type?  Can you boot any
>other type of boot disks?
>
>How far does the boot get before failing?
>
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16901
>
>


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