From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 3 2:14:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-40-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F3914EEF for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:14:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA06395; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:13:04 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199903031013.MAA06395@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Problems with 3.1 install In-Reply-To: from "Bond, Jeffery" at "Mar 3, 99 09:41:56 am" To: Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk (Bond Jeffery) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:13:03 +0200 (SAT) Cc: mdh@logcabin.woods.bridge.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bond, Jeffery wrote: > Michael D Hughes wrote: > > > I just got me 3.1 4 CD set yesterday in the mail. But after making the > >two boot floppies, I get the following error when the system boots: > > > > /kernel text=0x18be9a zf_read: fill error > > elf_loadexec:archsw.readin failed > > can't load module '/kernel': input/output error. > > > > This is a 486DX4 CPU with 8 Meg memory. I have run 2.2.8 on this machine > >without any problems. Can anyone help on this???? > > I'm also having trouble installing 3.1-RELEASE on a machine with 8MB 486. I > am beginning to think 8MB is not enough for 3.1. Maybe your current problems > are just bad sectors on your floppies, but if you do succeed, I'd be very > interested to know. With 8MB, it should at least be possible to boot to the sysinstall menu. I've verified this on an AMD 386DX with 8MB, though I didn't actually do an install (I was just testing something in the boot code). The most common cause of the text=0x18be9a error above seems to be forgetting to use kern.flp, and copying only half of the 2.88M boot.flp to a 1.44M floppy. So that may be worth checking, if that's the error message. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message