Bug 17971

Summary: cannot boot 4.0 floppies to install
Product: Base System Reporter: dragona <dragona>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description dragona 2000-04-13 14:30:01 UTC
When I try to boot the 4.0 floppy the bootstrap, auto-discovery dosn't find the floppy drive, from which the bootstrap loaded.  It identifies the two hard drives, but not the floppy.

This is on a Pentium 60 PC, with an adaptec 2840 SCSI card, two SCSI hard drives, two SCSI CD-ROM drives, a SCSI tape drive.  The floppy disk drive is a standard 3.5" 1.44 MB Teac floppy.

This problem has existed in versions 3.x as well.

How-To-Repeat: Put the boot floppy in the drive, and reboot the PC.
Comment 1 Poul-Henning Kamp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-06-10 20:51:33 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

We need more information: type of PC, boot -v probe messages etc etc. 

This is not by any chance a scsi floppy drive ?
Comment 2 Dag-Erling Smørgrav freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-03-13 04:01:36 UTC
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout.