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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!storey.wbme.jhu.edu!hlee From: hlee@storey.wbme.jhu.edu (Sean (Yung-hsiang) Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help!!! Crash during booting the boot disk. Date: 3 Sep 1995 05:04:25 GMT Organization: Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Lines: 32 Message-ID: <42bd0p$paa@news.jhu.edu> References: <429mv4$7on@i-2000.com> <429r1b$8un@gryphon.phoenix.net> <42baln$7kb@zagnut.cs.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.220.88.22 Hi, to the Hackers, I used rawrite to prepare the boot disk. When I boot from freebsd boot floppy, it would proceed correctly if I don't press any keys. If I press return for "default", it will get into an eternal loop, displaying the initial messages. Well, anyway, if I let it go by itself, I will eventually get the following error: matcd0: get_stat: after reading status byte, bus didn't go idle ff f 230 And this line just keeps printing on the whole screen. Can anyone identify what kind of problem it is, and how to get around it? Is it a software or hardware problem? My hardware is the following: Pentium 90MHz Intel AT-Baby Motherboard (PCI/IDE) 1.2 Mb & 1.44 Mb FD Maxtor 7850AV 850Mb HD Diamond Stealth PCI 64 bit, 2Mb DRAM Teac Quad speed CDROM Sound Blaster Card US Robotics 14.4k faxmodem Could this be a virus problem? I've scanned my MSDOS partition with the newest virus scanner however and didn't find anything. Thanx for your help in advance. Sean Lee