Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:53:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) Message-ID: <199806281653.JAA19780@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jun 1998 11:54:26 EDT." <199806281554.LAA16209@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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> floating around. One of them, which I think is a DSI, refuses to > run the FreeBSD boot block. (I say 'I think it's a DSI' because the > stupid machine doesn't have any identifying vendor markings on it > whatsoever.) Eyecch. > You can actually configure the thing to boot from internal disk, > floppy or CD-ROM. When I put the FreeBSD install floppy or CD-ROM > in and try to boot, it says 'Loading boot block from FLOPPY: FAILED' > or 'Loading boot block from CD-ROM: FAILED' and moves on to the > internal disk and loads LoseNT. > > As a hack, I dug up a set of MS-DOG 6.22 floppies and put an > ATAPI CD-ROM driver on one of them so that I could boot the laptop > in MS-DOG and access the FreeBSD install CD. From there I ran > fbsdboot.exe, and successfully loaded the install kernel. > > Clearly, the machine likes the MS-DOG bootstrap and the LoseNT > bootstrap, but not ours. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm clever > enough to find the exact problem myself, and I can't really load > FreeBSD on this machine since they need it with LoseNT (grrrr). Just out of curiosity, what happens if you take the "MSDOS" signature off the top of a DOS boot floppy and drop it onto the FreeBSD image? (I realise the resulting bootblock won't work, but it would tell us something about the criteria they're using.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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