Re: FreeBSD 6.0BETA1 - Oddness with install floppies

2005-07-26 Thread Alex Burke
Hi, Sorry it took me a little while to reply. I dont think this is an ATA problem as the hard disks in the system are all on SCSI channels. Anyway, I dont think an ATA timeout should affect loading the memory image from floppy, thats why I wanted to ask if anybody else had seen this. I guess I wi

Re: FreeBSD 6.0BETA1 - Oddness with install floppies

2005-07-23 Thread Matthias Buelow
Alex Burke wrote: >I was trying to boot a system from the installation floppies, and >after the kernel booted it dropped me out into a mountroot prompt. I >am posative its not meant to do this, it should start sysinstall. >I am not exactly sure what to do from here on, should i specify >ufs:da0s1a

FreeBSD 6.0BETA1 - Oddness with install floppies

2005-07-23 Thread Alex Burke
Hi All, I was trying to boot a system from the installation floppies, and after the kernel booted it dropped me out into a mountroot prompt. I am posative its not meant to do this, it should start sysinstall. I am not exactly sure what to do from here on, should i specify ufs:da0s1a...would that