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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't Boot frrom Boot Floppy (HELP!)
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 09:19:58 -0700
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Ron Higgins wrote:
>
> Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes:
> >Ron Higgins wrote:
> >
> >> The problem I am having is that I cannot get the system to boot a FreeBSD
> >> boot floppy.
> >>
> >> What happens is that the system will briefly look at the floppy, as if it
> >> boot from there, and then proceed directly to the HD and boot the OS/2
> >> boot manager.
>
>
> The BIOS says that the boot sequence is A,C. So that's right.
>
> Hmmmm...Looks like I'll be getting those cookies and a dounut. :-)
> Thanks,
Okay, herewith 6 stale cookies ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
and a dried-out, shriveled-up donut that's been crushed by the US Mule
Service {{{}}} :-)
Now that the fun's over with, let's try the next logical questions: When
you pulled down the boot.flp code, did you specify a binary file
transfer? Did you use rawrite.exe to create the boot floppy? For that
matter, did you use a binary transfer to get rawrite.exe?
One of my co-workers made that mistake in getting most of the
distribution, and the result was an *amazing* sequence of errors!
--
Ken
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