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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!news.sandia.gov!somnet.sandia.gov!elam.mdl.sandia.gov!aflundi From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Subject: FreeBSD-2.0R boot kernel question Message-ID: <1994Nov25.173906.29357@sandia.gov> Sender: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Reply-To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 17:39:06 GMT Lines: 34 Fantastic work guys! There has been alot of work put into this release, and I think the core team should be highly praised. I do have a problem though :-(. The first several times I tried to boot the boot floppy, it failed as the kernel tried to switch to the floppy device as root. After doing a hardware reset, it did make the switch OK and I went through the boot installation. When I boot now from the hard disk, everything goes fine until it asks for the cpio floppy, but is unable to read it. The debug screen just says "gunzip input/output error". There is a message on the install screen, but it goes away far too fast to read, that looks like a fd driver debug line. The floppy then becomes unavailable in any fashion until I do a hardware reset, at which time the controller recognises it again. I'm using a Bt445S SCSI controller and the floppy controller on it for the single floppy drive I have. So, I guess the question is, "Is the kernel installed on the hard disk from the boot floppy, the same as the kernel booted from on the boot floppy?" Also, whenever I do an <ESC><ESC> from either the boot floppy install, or from the 2nd phase install (sysinstall?), it reboots the machine. Do I not undersand something fundamental here? Again, many thanks and kudos for the terrific job!!! --alan -- Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>