When I try to boot from the installation floppy, loader reports: "BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 693/64512kB (jkh@time.cdrom.com,....) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x0 not found by probes, defauling to disk0: " My computer is ALR Evolution V (EISA bus, Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS v1.00.32B 05/25/93) There are also AHA-1542C and AHA-1540B installed on it. So, I have 3 floppy controllers - 1 of them enabled (no matter which one) and 2 disabled. MS-DOS, MS-Windows and Linux can use thise floppy with any problems. Fix: throwaway old computers or do not use new programs :) How-To-Repeat: reboot, reboot ...
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->jhb Over to the big knife. :-) John, note that it appears that this is for a 4.x install, not a 3.4-RELEASE install. Also note that the Synopsis gives the wrong loader version.
sheldonh@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: BTX loader 1.00 can not recognize floppy as boot device > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->jhb > Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh > Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jul 31 02:48:19 PDT 2000 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > Over to the big knife. :-) > > John, note that it appears that this is for a 4.x install, not > a 3.4-RELEASE install. Also note that the Synopsis gives > the wrong loader version. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20254 Having looked at it, it looks like you boot off of the floppy disk, but the BIOS doesn't support the floppy disk in question. We know this because disk0 -> C: and disk1 -> D:. Thus, both disk0 and disk1 are hard drive devices (or at least that's what the BIOS has told us). Unfortunately, during the bootstrap, the BIOS is the only way we have to talk to the hardware, so if your BIOS doesn't support those floppy drives, then we can't talk to them. :( We do assume that a B: drive will always have a A: drive before it, so it may be something very weird where you only have a B: drive but no A: drive. If that is the case, then see if you can disable such behavior in the BIOS. The BIOS doesn't tell us what is installed, so we just ask if each floppy drive is valid until we find one that isn't. This assumes that all drives will be sequentially numbered starting at 0 for floppies and 0x80 for hard drives (which has always been the case in every PC I've seen). -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
State Changed From-To: open->closed This appears to be a weird BIOS bug. I never got feedback from the originator, cannot reproduce the problem, and thus have no way to try to fix it.