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Subject: cannot boot 3.4 floppies
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>Number:         16901
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       cannot boot 3.4 floppies
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 21 22:20:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Sun Aug 6 12:36:42 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Sun Aug 06 12:37:12 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Derek Ragona
>Release:        3.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I have a ISA/VL bus motherboard, with an Adaptec 284X SCSI adapter, 2 SCSI harddisks, no IDE drives.  The kern floppy does not recognize the floppy drive, and won't boot from it.  Yet, it is the same drive I made the floppies on.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to boot the floppies.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@concentric.net>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, <dragona@interaccess.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/16901: cannot boot 3.4 floppies
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:02:49 -0500

 I have the same sort of problem.
 
 When I boot from the kern floppy my system hangs after the following is
 printed to the screen:
 ===============================================
 /boot.config: -P
 Keyboard: no
 -
 BTX loader 1.00   BTX version is 1.01
 ===============================================
 My system is an Acer Aspire PIII 450, 128MB RAM, 8GB HD with the following
 hardware:
    Human Interface Devices (HID) USB mouse and keyboard
          (*NOTE* only USB keyboard - no PS/2 or AT-style ports)
 
    Intel 82443BX Pentium II Processor to PCI bridge
    Intel 82443BX Pentium II Process to AGP Controller
 
    Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
    Intel 82371EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA mode)
    Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
    Intel 82371AB/EB Power Management Controller
 (the Intel 82371AB/EB architecture is specifically supported according to
 the hardward notes at freeBSD.org)
 
    ATI XPERT 98 Display adapter
    Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 70 Monitor
 
    ESS Solo-1 Soundblaster sound card
 
    Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) BIOS
 
    Acer 56K DataFax PCI Modem
 
    3com FastEtherlink XL 10/100MB TX Ethernet NIC (3C905B-TX)
 
    Hitachi DVD-ROM GD-2500
 
    Generic IDE Harddisk and Floppy disk
 
 First: It's my understanding that USB is supported so I don't understand why
 I get the message "Keyboard: no."  Second: Everything seems to go well for
 2-3 minutes: the drive is humming, I get messages on the screen, etc but
 then the baton stops turning, the floopy stops (I guess it has finished
 reading) and nothing happens.
 
 NOTE  I have the second floppy disk: mfsroot and I have tried putting it
 into the drive after a couple of minutes of inactivity (despite not being
 prompted to do so) but nothing happens (even after hitting return a few
 times).
 
 What is the correct behavior?  Shouldn't there be a prompt for the second
 disk?
 
 FYI: I am a "newbie," and have done extensive reading about FreeBSD over teh
 last few days.  I am very excited about getting freeBSD but I never thought
 I would have problems this early in the install process.  I have used
 VAX/VMS and Win95/98/NT for many years.  I was going to use Redhat but,
 Linux doesn't support USB.  This appears to be a lucky coincidence, however,
 since FreeBSD seems to be *much* better (more stable, more central and
 coherent development, easier (PORTS), possibly a better license for
 developers, etc.)  FreeBSD seems to be the best-kept secret in "free"
 operating systems!
 
 John
 
 John
 
 

From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@concentric.net>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, <dragona@interaccess.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/16901: cannot boot 3.4 floppies
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:29:51 -0500

 I have the same sort of problem.
 
 When I boot from the kern floppy my system hangs after the following is
 printed to the screen:
 ===============================================
 /boot.config: -P
 Keyboard: no
 -
 BTX loader 1.00   BTX version is 1.01
 ===============================================
 My system is an Acer Aspire PIII 450, 128MB RAM, 8GB HD with the following
 hardware:
    Human Interface Devices (HID) USB mouse and keyboard
          (*NOTE* only USB keyboard - no PS/2 or AT-style ports)
 
    Intel 82443BX Pentium II Processor to PCI bridge
    Intel 82443BX Pentium II Process to AGP Controller
 
    Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
    Intel 82371EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA mode)
    Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
    Intel 82371AB/EB Power Management Controller
 (the Intel 82371AB/EB architecture is specifically supported according to
 the hardward notes at freeBSD.org)
 
    ATI XPERT 98 Display adapter
    Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 70 Monitor
 
    ESS Solo-1 Soundblaster sound card
 
    Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) BIOS
 
    Acer 56K DataFax PCI Modem
 
    3com FastEtherlink XL 10/100MB TX Ethernet NIC (3C905B-TX)
 
    Hitachi DVD-ROM GD-2500
 
    Generic IDE Harddisk and Floppy disk
 
 First: It's my understanding that USB is supported so I don't understand why
 I get the message "Keyboard: no."  Second: Everything seems to go well for
 2-3 minutes: the drive is humming, I get messages on the screen, etc but
 then the baton stops turning, the floopy stops (I guess it has finished
 reading) and nothing happens.
 
 NOTE  I have the second floppy disk: mfsroot and I have tried putting it
 into the drive after a couple of minutes of inactivity (despite not being
 prompted to do so) but nothing happens (even after hitting return a few
 times).
 
 What is the correct behavior?  Shouldn't there be a prompt for the second
 disk?
 
 FYI: I am a "newbie," and have done extensive reading about FreeBSD over teh
 last few days.  I am very excited about getting freeBSD but I never thought
 I would have problems this early in the install process.  I have used
 VAX/VMS and Win95/98/NT for many years.  I was going to use Redhat but,
 Linux doesn't support USB.  This appears to be a lucky coincidence, however,
 since FreeBSD seems to be *much* better (more stable, more central and
 coherent development, easier (PORTS), possibly a better license for
 developers, etc.)  FreeBSD seems to be the best-kept secret in "free"
 operating systems!
 
 John
 
 John
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: alfred 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 6 02:23:50 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Needs more input from user, can you please provide more information 
such as motherboard type and floppy drive type?  Can you boot any 
other type of boot disks? 

How far does the boot get before failing? 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16901 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: nbm 
State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 6 12:36:42 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout - submission didn't give enough information to 
diagnose. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16901 
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