Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:40:09 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <dragona@interaccess.com> To: sheldonh@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/20776: Cannot boot the install floppy for version 4.1 Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000822104009.007d6a50@pop.interaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <200008221439.HAA02127@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Yes, the floppy is enabled in the BIOS. The floppy is the first device in the boot order. No the floppy is not "swapped" in the BIOS. If the floppy were not the first device in the boot order, it wouldn't load the bootstrap upon reboot. I don't do anything other than put the boot floppy into the drive, then reset the system. I can boot other operating systems from this floppy drive. Is there someway to tell the bootstrap not to probe for the boot device, but rather explicitly go to this floppy drive? I experimented with the two floppies, mfsroot, and boot floppy. It appears the boot floppy's bootstrap has special code to load the compressed kernel, along with probing for the boot device. If I boot the system with the mfsroot floppy in, I get the FreeBSD boot prompt, and when I tell it to boot (after switching the floppy in the drive to the boot floppy) 0:fd(0,a)/kernel.gz the error message I get is: invalid format but it does try to boot the kernel from the floppy. -Derek At 07:39 AM 8/22/00 -0700, sheldonh@FreeBSD.org wrote: >Synopsis: Cannot boot the install floppy for version 4.1 > >State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback >State-Changed-By: sheldonh >State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 22 07:38:06 PDT 2000 >State-Changed-Why: >Smells like BIOS configuration. Are you sure that the floppy >is enabled in the BIOS, that the floppy isn't "swapped" by >the BIOS and that the floppy is the first device probed >by the BIOS in the boot order? > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20776 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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