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From: Yungming Hsu <yh29+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD floppy install problem
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 11:25:48 -0500
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Message-ID: <QhFygAu00iUzA3kX0l@andrew.cmu.edu>
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I recently FTP'd the boot binaries from FreeBSD.cdrom.com and am having
problems getting it to finish booting the first time.
After the boot disk prompts for the file system disk. I get up to this
point in the bootup device initalization and then it syncs the disc and
reboots.
changing root device to fd0a
wd0: cannot find label (no disc label)
panic: cannot mount root
The problem is that the floppy drive light does not even light at all
during all this. Could it be possible that it's having problems with my
FDD controller?
I have an old 386DX-25 with '89 AMI BIOS
GSI Model 32 IDE&FDD controller and WD2420 IDE drive.
If anyone has any idea what's going on please e-mail or post.. Thanks in
advance.
Yung Hsu
yh29@andrew.cmu.edu