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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!The-Star.honeywell.com!spacenns.space.honeywell.com!usenet From: drklingman@space.honeywell.com (drklingman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Floppy Bootup Problems Date: 17 Jan 1995 12:55:13 GMT Organization: Honeywell, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3fgenh$45k@spacenns.space.honeywell.com> References: <3evhno$7bl@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: drklingman.space.honeywell.com X-Newsreader: WinVN version 0.82 In article <3evhno$7bl@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, dwormdahl@aol.com (DWormdahl) says: > >I am having trouble getting my machine to recognize the boot disk that I >created by ftp'ing boot_144.flp from ftp.FreeBSD.Org through a Dos/Windows >machine directly to the floppy. The FAQ says to use the unix dos tool >command rawrite but our system does not have that available. I get the >no-system disk error on bootup. I have a Dell Dimension XPS90 pentium >machine with a PCI bus, #9GXE video card and a WD 540mb IDE hard drive. >I would greatly appreciate any comments or suggestions anyone might have. If you have a 5-1/4 drive, then you probably need to boot off of it rather than 3-1/2. Typically DOS tries to boot off the A: drive first, then the C: drive. Another thing to try is to look in the CMOS setup an change the drives that are accessed for bootup. Good luck. Dan