Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!kxn3796 From: kxn3796@hertz.njit.edu (Ken Nakata) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [FreeBSD] kcopy-*-floppies don't boot Message-ID: <1993Sep13.234930.6556@njitgw.njit.edu> Date: 13 Sep 93 23:49:30 GMT Sender: news@njit.edu Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey Lines: 42 Nntp-Posting-Host: hertz.njit.edu Hello world, First of all, I'd like to thank to a couple of people who responded my previous post. I tried to install FreeBSD on my 486 ISA/VL box but can't. At first, I tried kcopy-bt-floppy and it consistently reboots after newfsing root and usr filesystems. Then I tried with disabling cache (both internal and external) and BIOS shadowing and increasing bus wait states but nothing has changed. Also I tried kcopy-ah-floppy but it even doesn't boot. My box's BIOS detected an attempt to write to the boot record as possibly a virus activity when I tried (I let it write. Fortunately, the boot record was not destructed). Then halt. Nothing. I had no problem with 386BSD 0.1 (with and without patches), NetBSD 0.8, nor Mt.Xinu's Mach386. My box has; 486DX2 66MHz with 128K external cache 16MByte RAM DTC integrated VLB I/O controller (IDE, COM1/2, LPT1) *1 Western Digital AC2340 340M IDE harddisk drive *2 Supra FaxModem V.32bis internal *3 ISA SVGA Logitech MouseMan Serial Mouse *4 *1 COM1 is disabled *2 DOS occupies the first 559 cylinders. The geometry is the default; 1010 cylinders, 12 heads, 55 sectors/track. *3 assigned as COM1 *4 connected to COM2 Thanks in advance. Ken Nakata -- * I apologize if there are misuses of and/or impolite words or phrases in this mail or post. They are not intended; I don't fully understand certain words or each nuance of a phrase. Any corrections for either English compositions or contents are greatly appreciated. Thank you. Ken Nakata, CIS student, NJIT *