Re: Older machine won't boot from install floppies

["Tim Henrich" <trh@awful.ath.cx>]

Hm.. Yeah I had the same problem. It hung at the exact same spot when
booting from the floppy and wouldn't go any farther.  Try googling for that
specific output during bootup maybe.. Sorry I wasn't of much help :)

trh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of
stan
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 11:53 PM
To: 'OpenBSD general usage list'
Subject: Re: Older machine won't boot from install floppies

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 05:01:27PM -0500, Tim Henrich wrote:
> Stan,
> 
> I had a problem similar to what you're describing when trying to install
3.4
> on my 120GB drive. If your drive is bigger than 8GB and you have multiple
> partitions on it you might want to check out this link.. That's the
problem
> I was having when it hung at that spot during bootup.
> 
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive   
THnaks.

However, it's a 3.2G drive.

Was the problem you had a total failure to do teh inital boot from floppy?

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