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Subject: Installation diskettes don't boot
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>Number:         23359
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Installation diskettes don't boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 07 07:50:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Sun Nov 18 08:20:27 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Nov 18 08:22:46 PST 2001
>Originator:     Alcino Dall'Igna Jnior
>Release:        None, trying 4.2
>Organization:
Universidade Federal de Alagoas
>Environment:
Linux ... i486 unknown
(linux works in it)
>Description:
In a IBM 486DX2-66 ValuePoint, 40 Mb, after loading mfsroot diskette, when inicializing the boot properly, the screen flashes a never ending list of maybe registers (to fast, unreadable)
>How-To-Repeat:
Diskettes of 4.1 or 4.2 ever
>Fix:
In a newer processor (K6 for example), the error does not occur.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: iedowse 
State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 18 08:01:14 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  

Does this still occur with more recent releases? 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23359 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: iedowse 
State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 18 08:20:27 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  

Mail to submitter bounces (the PR relates to IBM 486 DX2-66 
hardware which is ancient, and quite likely to be a bit weird). 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23359 
>Unformatted:
