Re: Cannot boot from floppy disk

David Brownlee <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:21:35 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.bebox
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On 19 April 2014 18:40, Frank Wille <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> over the long Easter weekend I'm trying to set up my BeBox with NetBSD,
> but I still have the problem that the boot floppy disks are ignored.
>
> I tried boot.fs, boot_vga.fs and boot_com0.fs but nothing worked. After
> accessing the disk drive for a short time the boot process ends in the
> BeOS boot menu, where I only have the option to rescan the devices. But
> nothing is found.
>
> [...]

Quick thought - do the boot floppies for earlier releases show the
same issue - maybe a problem was introduced at some point?