Re: Floppy boot disallowed
From: David Lord (snews_at_lordynet.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/28/03
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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:26:47 +0000 (GMT)
On Saturday, in article <CModb.21881$a16.2053@lakeread01>
dcp940@softhome.net "Dan" wrote:
> Vladimir V Egorin wrote:
<snip>
> >
> > When you power up your machine, does the floppy light come on
> > before it goes to freebsd boot manager?
> > If it does, you might have a bad floppy. Just a guess.
> > Try downloading freebsd boot floppy image and booting with it
> > to see if floppy boot works.
> >
> The light turns on, and I tried another disk which boots fine on my
> linux box.
> Dan
Why not try downloading freebsd boot floppy image and booting with it
to see if floppy boot works.
Copy the boot image to floppy on the FreeBSD box you are trying to
boot from. This will eliminate possibility one of the floppy drives
isn't in track alignment with the drive used for writing the floppy.
David
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