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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help On FreeBSD Installaton
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 16 Jul 1995 19:46:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3uaela$2ud@degas.icsi.net>,
Prince Emeka Uchendu <prince@cent.com> wrote:
>file to the floppy. I inserted the floppy in drive A: and reset the PC
>but it hangs at boot without any message...I would have just ordered

[Note:  This should go to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc - revectoring]

This means either two things:

	1. The rawritten image is bad.  This can happen due to:
		o Bad floppy media (try another floppy)

		o rawrite failing on the hardware.  For some strange reason,
		  rawrite sometimes fails to generate a good floppy.  You
		  can test this by trying to boot another machine with the
		  same floppy and if it hangs too, chances are that rawrite
		  was unable to copy boot.flp to the floppy on your machine.
		  Try creating the boot floppy on an entirely different machine.

	2. Some conflict with your hardware.

		o Does the problem persist even when you disable cache?
		o Can you tell us more about your configuration?

					Jordan