Bug 20450

Summary:	1.4M boot floppies contained on cdrom ISO image don't work
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	rbmills <rbmills>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	jkh
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	1.0-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description rbmills 2000-08-07 05:10:00 UTC

I created "kern" and "mfsroot" boot floppies using the images
contained on the cdrom image downloaded from:

  ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.1-install.iso

These floppies would not work, so I download new copies from:

  ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1-RELEASE/floppies

This time the boot was successful. I noted that the kern and mfsroot
floppies files from the cdrom differ from those that I downloaded
separately.

Fix: 

Download new copies of the floppy images.
How-To-Repeat: Create kern and mfsroot floppies from the "floppies/" directory
on the 4.1-RELEASE cdrom.

Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn 2000-08-07 10:05:29 UTC

On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 21:05:01 MST, rbmills@lucent.com wrote:

> I created "kern" and "mfsroot" boot floppies using the images
> contained on the cdrom image downloaded from:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.1-install.iso
> 
> These floppies would not work, so I download new copies from:

"These floppies would not work" doesn't help much.  Could you explain
exactly what you saw?

Furthermore, are you convinced that you haven't just been bitten by bad
floppies, or badly written floppies?  You wouldn't be the first person
to have tripped up over this. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

Comment 2 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

2000-08-07 10:05:39 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Waiting for feedback from the originator.

Comment 3 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

2000-08-07 10:05:39 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh

Jordan will want to see the feedback.

Comment 4 rbmills 2000-08-07 23:52:25 UTC

Sheldon,

Sorry about the "it didn't work" problem description. I should have
known better, having received this sort of problem report myself
may times.

It turns out I have made a fool of myself. You are right, I recreated
the boot floppy and all is OK.

What had me believing there was a problem is that the kern.flp file
in the cdrom is different from the one downloaded from:

 ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1-RELEASE/floppies/kern.flp

I appologise for causing any inconvenience. I'll ensure that I retest
any suspect problems before reporting them next time. You guys are doing
a great job and it certainly was not my intention to throw bogus
bug reports at you.

Thanks for the prompt response,

Robert Mills

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 21:05:01 MST, rbmills@lucent.com wrote:
> 
> > I created "kern" and "mfsroot" boot floppies using the images
> > contained on the cdrom image downloaded from:
> > 
> >   ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.1-install.iso
> > 
> > These floppies would not work, so I download new copies from:
> 
> "These floppies would not work" doesn't help much.  Could you explain
> exactly what you saw?
> 
> Furthermore, are you convinced that you haven't just been bitten by bad
> floppies, or badly written floppies?  You wouldn't be the first person
> to have tripped up over this. :-)
> 
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>

Comment 5 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

2000-08-08 08:48:24 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

The usual suspect rears its head again. :-)

Comment 6 Sheldon Hearn 2000-08-08 08:50:50 UTC

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:52:25 +1000, Robert Mills wrote:

> I appologise for causing any inconvenience. I'll ensure that I retest
> any suspect problems before reporting them next time. You guys are doing
> a great job and it certainly was not my intention to throw bogus
> bug reports at you.

What is it that they always say about having to fall off a horse seven
times before you can call yourself a rider?

Everyone makes mistakes. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.