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From: andersen@fastlane.net (Craig G. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Boot trouble revisited
Date: 24 Dec 1995 19:04:01 GMT
Organization: Home Network
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Message-ID: <4bk871$2ae@dfw.nkn.net>
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What has occurred:
1. Transferred the 2.1.0 boot.flp using binary mode of FTP
from ftp.cdrom.com.
2. Calculated the md5 to be 00d22c35c89782bd39982f6584787f9f.
(Which a user told me was the correct value)
3. Made a boot floppy with (Linux) dd
4. Read the floppy back and compared (using cmp) to the origial boot.flp
and it compared (so did md5).
5. I also made a diskette on another machines floppy drive.
(another good user idea).
Results:
When the system boots it hits the floppy for about 2 seconds (based on
floppy activity light), and never returns (no boot prompt).
So as not to be premature I waited several minutes with no floppy
activity.
The only thing that works at this point is the old CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Other trys:
I made boot floppies from MSDOS using rawrite on 2 different machines
with the same results as above. I will try to boot these floppies
on a different machine as soon as I locate one.
I have made several copies onto 'new' floppies (I did have one bad
media experience). Once again I formatted and created the boot floppies
on two different machines (floppy drives).
Current Hardware:
Dell Dimension 486DX2/50 8MB
SIIG EIDE Master ISA controller (for 2 floppies and 4 disks)
2 Hard drives.
TEAC FD-505 Combo Drive (Floppy Drives 1.44 and 1.2)
Other info:
Netbsd and Linux boot floppies work (No this is not to start anything).
I am going to get the CDROM, but I thought if the boot floppy will
not boot I may wait for v2.2 ...
Question: Any ideas ? Is there a way to look at the boot code or
gain other debugging info ?
Hopefully I have fixed my NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN variable.
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