From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 21 23:21:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA02583 for current-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA02575 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00870; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:20:14 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:20:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems boot 2.2-SNAP In-Reply-To: <199606181449.LAA11741@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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? 2) Was the image downloaded in BINARY mode? 3) If you are running under Win95, are you booting to MS-DOS to write the image? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major