Bug 20776
| Summary: | Cannot boot the install floppy for version 4.1 | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | dragona <dragona> |
| Component: | kern | Assignee: | rnordier |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
dragona
2000-08-22 09:20:00 UTC
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Smells like BIOS configuration. Are you sure that the floppy is enabled in the BIOS, that the floppy isn't "swapped" by the BIOS and that the floppy is the first device probed by the BIOS in the boot order? On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:40:09 EST, Derek Ragona wrote:
> I experimented with the two floppies, mfsroot, and boot floppy.
Experimented? What were you using before, boot.flp? Do you really have
such a high capacity floppy drive?
Also, what kind of floppy drive do you have? Nothing special?
Ciao,
Sheldon.
I have been using boot.flp and mfsroot.flp, both from the 4.1 CD. These are "good" floppies, as I have used them to load another system. The floppy is a teac 1.44 MB standard drive. -Derek At 05:53 PM 8/22/00 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > >On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:40:09 EST, Derek Ragona wrote: > >> I experimented with the two floppies, mfsroot, and boot floppy. > >Experimented? What were you using before, boot.flp? Do you really have >such a high capacity floppy drive? > >Also, what kind of floppy drive do you have? Nothing special? > >Ciao, >Sheldon. > > Sheldon, I had a thought. The system has an Adaptec 2840 SCSI adapter, and perhaps the bootstrap sees the SCSI adapter, and expects the floppies to be connected to it (which could be the case if a 2842 were used, and the floppy controller on it enabled) and doesn't probe further to the motherboard floppy controller. -Derek At 05:53 PM 8/22/00 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > >On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:40:09 EST, Derek Ragona wrote: > >> I experimented with the two floppies, mfsroot, and boot floppy. > >Experimented? What were you using before, boot.flp? Do you really have >such a high capacity floppy drive? > >Also, what kind of floppy drive do you have? Nothing special? > >Ciao, >Sheldon. > > At Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:40:04 PDT, Derek Ragona wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/20776; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Derek Ragona <dragona@interaccess.com>
> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: kern/20776: Cannot boot the install floppy for version 4.1
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:37:45 -0500
>
> I have been using boot.flp and mfsroot.flp, both from the 4.1 CD. These
> are "good" floppies, as I have used them to load another system.
>
> The floppy is a teac 1.44 MB standard drive.
You should be using 'kern.flp' and 'mfsroot.flp' which are for 1.44MB drives.
'boot.flp' is for 2.88MB drives.
/Johan K
Sorry, I typed the wrong image name. I am using the two 1.44 images. -Derek At 10:20 AM 8/23/00 +0200, Johan Karlsson wrote: >At Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:40:04 PDT, Derek Ragona wrote: >> The following reply was made to PR kern/20776; it has been noted by GNATS. >> >> From: Derek Ragona <dragona@interaccess.com> >> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> >> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: kern/20776: Cannot boot the install floppy for version 4.1 >> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:37:45 -0500 >> >> I have been using boot.flp and mfsroot.flp, both from the 4.1 CD. These >> are "good" floppies, as I have used them to load another system. >> >> The floppy is a teac 1.44 MB standard drive. > >You should be using 'kern.flp' and 'mfsroot.flp' which are for 1.44MB drives. > >'boot.flp' is for 2.88MB drives. > >/Johan K > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 03:20:05 MST, Derek Ragona wrote:
> Sorry, I typed the wrong image name. I am using the two 1.44 images.
I'm not sure how to help you beyond this point. This isn't something
that a lot of people are complaining about. I'm pretty sure that I've
seen one other report like this, where the maintainer of the bootstrap
code basically said that if the originator couldn't get his floppy
probed, his BIOS was misbehaving and there wasn't much he could do with
the floppy.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->rnordier I'll handle this. I've had a similar problem with the 4.1 and 4.2 kern.flp images. It must be something that's changed in the image between 3.4-R and 4.1-R, because 3.4-R is the last version I've installed on my problem box. Here's the relevant info: The CPU is a 486DX4-120. It's also a VL-bus, and I believe the floppy controller is on the motherboard. Note that 'lsdev' can't read the disklabel on the floppy. ============================================================== BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639KB/31744kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org, Mon Nov 20 11:41:23 GMT 2000) Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help ok ls open '/' failed: input/output error ok lsdev disk @ 0x10918 disk0: BIOS drive A: disk1: BIOS drive C: disk1s1a: FFS 32MB (0 - 65536) disk1s2a: swap 73MB (65536 - 216640) disk1s1e: FFS 30MB (216640 - 278080) disk1s1f: FFS 3998MB (278080 - 8467200) pxe @ 0xef70 ok =============================================================== Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Sat Jan 29 19:31:02 CST 2000 buchanan@booger.mbb.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/V20000129 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: AMD Enhanced Am486DX4 Write-Back (486-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x494 Stepping = 4 Features=0x1<FPU> real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) avail memory = 30294016 (29584K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc027c000. Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 on isa sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> ed0 at 0x340-0x35f irq 15 on isa ed0: address 00:c0:f0:02:cb:44, type NE2000 (16 bit) atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard atkbd0 irq 1 on isa sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa sio0: type 16450 sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16450 sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 on isa sio2: type 16550A sio3 at 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 9 on isa sio3: type 16550A fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY4320A> wd0: 4134MB (8467200 sectors), 8960 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S mcd0: type Mitsumi FX001D, version info: D 2 mcd0 at 0x300-0x303 irq 10 on isa ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Stale and unable to reproduce: if this is still an issue, please submit a fresh PR. |
