Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:13:03 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk (Bond Jeffery) Cc: mdh@logcabin.woods.bridge.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 3.1 install Message-ID: <199903031013.MAA06395@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B0269D7@exchange.nectech.co.uk> from "Bond, Jeffery" at "Mar 3, 99 09:41:56 am"
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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
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