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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!julienas!news-rocq.inria.fr!alix.inria.fr!soulard From: soulard@alix.inria.fr (Herve Soulard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0R boot kernel question Date: 26 Nov 1994 23:15:01 GMT Organization: I.N.R.I.A Rocquencourt Lines: 55 Message-ID: <3b8fhl$mg@news-rocq.inria.fr> References: <1994Nov25.173906.29357@sandia.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: alix.inria.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Alan F Lundin (aflundi@sandia.gov) wrote: : 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> I had the same problem. The kernel boots fine until it wants to changing the root device to fd0c. There were a message from the floppy device. When I reboot (with the reste button) the floppy is totally blocked. I need to switch off. I've found a solution by using my second floppy drive (1.2) as drive A instead of the 1.44 floppy. This way I was able to install the kernel on my hard drive. Then I reboot the system with the 1.44 floppy as drive A and when I put the cpio disk there were errors. The solution that worked for me was to use my 1.2 drive to install FreeBSD-2.0, both for the boot and the cpio disks). Herve Soulard.