Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 01:46:48 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Joe Schmoe <non_secure@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ?? Message-ID: <20040619064648.GA5040@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040619061714.94617.qmail@web53304.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040619061714.94617.qmail@web53304.mail.yahoo.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 18), Joe Schmoe said: > > I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four > (very) different computers today: > > - dell inspiron laptop > - toshiba libretto > - some other toshiba laptop > - Intel N440BX p3 server (with fxp0 and Intel onboard > SCSI) > > Every single time, I boot off kern.flp, move on to > mfsroot.flp, and as sysinstall is booting, after most > of the dmesg has passed by, it suddenly starts > spitting out error messages at an extremely fast rate. > The error messages are always the same - I can't read > it all because it flies by too fast, but there are > only two lines that repeat continuously: > > A line that starts with: spec_getpages > A line that starts with: vm_fault: pager > One of the lines ends with: 0xc4866000 (can't tell which) > One of the lines contains: md0: I/O read failure My only guess is your mfsroot floppy might be bad. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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