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Re: Making a floppy fails?




>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> writes:

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

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

... no... if I take that floppy and fill it with kern.flp from the
FreeBSD-3.4 dist, it works just fine.  Same with the other floppies.
With the code from etherboot loaded on the same floppy (with the same
drives) I was getting that.

Dave.

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