Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:03:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Adolfo Pisa Menendez <adolfo@pentia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CAN'T BOOT from LAPTOP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970730120156.9727E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <33DE6765.10F8@pentia.com>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Adolfo Pisa Menendez wrote: > I have purchased a new LAPTOP <TI Extensa 650CDT> to run FBSD. I've installed on one of these, or one very similiar. > When I try to boot from a floppy I get the message: > > crc error. > System Halted! > > That happends after decompressing the kernel. I've never seen that. Did you use the 'fdimage' program on the floppy to build the image and not 'rawrite'? 'fdimage' will make sure that the image is written properly on Win95, where 'rawrite' will fail. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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