Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 22:00:42 -0800 From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Bizzare floppy boot problems. Hardware hacker needed. Message-ID: <v02120d01ac50a20653c2@[192.0.2.1]>
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My 486-DX2, AMI BIOS, Adaptec 1542 SCSI card, SCSI HD only, started to show the following problem: Won't boot from a newly created DOS boot floppy using soft reboot. Will boot from new boot floppy using hard reboot. Will boot from floppy with soft reboot if I didn't just created it. I.e. in subsequent reboots after a hard reboot. The boot sequence gets until the "484-DX2" prompt and just sits there. No complaint about it not being a system disk, just hangs. If I use a FreeBSD boot disk, the behaviour is even more bizzare: It will access the FD *and then go straight to booting from the HD*. No "non-system disk" message, just boots as if there wasn't even a floppy in a:! The boot order is correct, I switched control of the FDs from the SCSI adaptor to the multi I/O card, even removing the I/O card, same problem. I tried different boot disks. I set the most conservative BIOS setting I can think of. I am at the end of my rope. Could it be a defective BIOS? What should I do next? TIA, -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.
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