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From: kew@timesink.spk.wa.us
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Subject: Floppy boot failure
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>Number:         1809
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       floppy boot code causes reboot of computer
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 14 20:50:02 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jan 25 15:44:14 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jan 25 15:44:55 PST 1997
>Originator:     Keith Walker
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:

	HP Pavilion 7020, 90 MHz Pentium, IDE disks, ATAPI cdrom,
	16 MB RAM, 

>Description:

	The boot floppy code will display the Phase I boot prompt;
	options can be typed in, but as soon as Enter/Return is pressed,
	or the timeout is reached, the machine does a warm boot.

	The HD boot code works fine, and I am able to install the
	system by initially booting from DOS through the FBSDBOOT
	program.

	This problem started between 2.1 and 2.1.5. I.e., the 2.1 floppy
	boot code worked fine, whereas the 2.1.5 code causes the
	reboot. I downloaded the latest 2.2 snap boot.flp and it
	has the same problem.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Attempt to boot from floppy.

>Fix:
	
	Don't boot from floppy, boot from DOS through FBSDBOOT program.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: kew@timesink.spk.wa.us
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/1809: Floppy boot failure 
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 21:58:28 -0700

 > 
 > >Number:         1809
 > >Category:       i386
 > >Synopsis:       floppy boot code causes reboot of computer
 
 This one has been reported by several people so far.  If you would
 be so kind as to grab:
 
 	ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/jkh/boot.flp
 
 And let me know if it boots past this problem, I'd appreciate it.
 Thanks!  [Guido - this floppy image contains your work-around].
 
 					Jordan

From: Kevet Duncombe <dunc@netcom.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: i386/1809: floppy boot code causes reboot of computer
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 22:57:14 -0800

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 Hi.. I tried to install 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CD last night.
 Booting from a floppy gets me to the first boot prompt, but pressing
 return or -c return causes a reset before it writes any messages.  I
 found P.R. i386/1809 while looking for a solution, and tried using
 ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/jkh/boot.flp as it suggested.  For what
 it's worth, it didn't help in my case.
 
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 <DT>Hi.. I tried to install 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CD last night.</DT>
 
 <DT>Booting from a floppy gets me to the first boot prompt, but pressing</DT>
 
 <DT>return or -c return causes a reset before it writes any messages.&nbsp;
 I</DT>
 
 <DT>found P.R. i386/1809 while looking for a solution, and tried using</DT>
 
 <DT>ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/jkh/boot.flp as it suggested.&nbsp;
 For what</DT>
 
 <DT>it's worth, it didn't help in my case.</DT>
 
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 25 15:44:14 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
This appears to be more of a local problem. 
>Unformatted:
