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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!dfw.nkn.net!tower.nexus.com!andersen From: andersen@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Craig G. Andersen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Boot trouble Date: 16 Dec 1995 15:14:24 GMT Organization: Individual subscriber of fastlane.net Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4aunog$6vl@dfw.nkn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: fw82.fastlane.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] The hardware is a 486 Dell Tower/EIDE/8Mb/DX2 50Mhz. It boots the Linux floppies and the NetBSD floppies but when booting FreeBSD, the light only flickers a couple of times and then vanishes forever with no messages. I have tried the "dd" from Linux and rawrite from DOS. The flopies have been pulled from ftp.freebsd.org for both 2.0.5 and 2.1. Any ideas on what might be the problem ? or should I dig into the boot floppy code ? As always any help would be appreciated. -- --------------------------- - Craig Andersen - - andersen@fastlane.net - ---------------------------