Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:52:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: rfg@monkeys.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bummer... Trying to install WITHOUT DOS Message-ID: <19970911185251.10888@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <7560.873969635@monkeys.com>; from Ronald F. Guilmette on Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 02:20:35AM -0700 References: <19970911184639.57405@lemis.com> <7560.873969635@monkeys.com>
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On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 02:20:35AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <19970911184639.57405@lemis.com>, you wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 01:33:09AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I just got the FreeBSD 2.2.2 VCD ROM from Walnut Creek and made the >>> requsite boot floppy from it, as directed. >>> >>> The boot floppy boots up to the Boot: brompt OK, but then after about >>> 5 seconds it takes off running and just generates a long stream of >>> repeating device errors of some sort. >> >> Of what sort? At this point you should be getting a twirling baton. > > The baton just barely starts to twirl, and then I get an endless > stream of message that all say: > > Error: D:0x0 C:0 H:1 S:0 > > repeating over and over again. That's what I thought. > I have no idea what these mean. Please enlighten me. Error. Disk 0, cylinder 0, head 1, sector 0. >> Report the error message. If it's telling you that it can't your >> floppy, throw it away and start again. > > Is that what the above message means?? That I just have a bad floppy?? Yup. It happens so often that I wonder if we don't have a bug in the floppy driver. But it *does* go away with a new floppy. In case of doubt, format it first. Greg
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