Re: Making a floppy fails?

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>Ken> Bad floppy?
>
>Don't think so... I have used this particular floppy to boot several
>other things (much larger images, actually).  The FreeBSD bootloader
>is fairly explicit about media errors when it encounters them.  I have 
>also tried two different floppies already.
>
>This is (roughly) what I'm getting (cut 'n paste from my serial
>console card):
>
>AX:0211
>BX:0000
>CX:0002
>DX:0000.
>8X:0211
>CX:0002
>8000
>BX:0002
>DX:0000.
>8000
>AX:0211
>BX:0000
>CX:0002
>DX:0000.
>8000
>AX:0211
>DX:0000
>AX:0211
>CX:0002
>8000
>BX:0000
>BX:0000
>CX:0002
>DX:0000.
>
>... any hints?

I've only seen it with bad floppies or bad drives so your guess is as
good as mine.

Wait a moment, you said FreeBSD bootloader? There is no FreeBSD bootloader
at this point. You're just supposed to cold boot the floppy from the BIOS.
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