From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 3 4:22:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gauntlet2.bridge.com (gauntlet2.bridge.com [167.76.159.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FAE14E0E for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 04:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdh@logcabin.woods.bridge.com) Received: by gauntlet2.bridge.com; id GAA06403; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 06:22:39 -0600 (CST) Received: from dns1srv.bridge.com(167.76.56.13) by gauntlet2.bridge.com via smap (4.1) id xma006389; Wed, 3 Mar 99 06:22:34 -0600 Received: from logcabin.woods.bridge.com (logcabin.woods.bridge.com [167.76.30.90]) by dns1srv.bridge.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA23414 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 06:22:33 -0600 (CST) Received: (from mdh@localhost) by logcabin.woods.bridge.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id GAA22341; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 06:22:31 -0600 (CST) From: Michael D Hughes Message-Id: <199903031222.GAA22341@logcabin.woods.bridge.com> Subject: Re: Problems with 3.1 install In-Reply-To: <199903031013.MAA06395@ceia.nordier.com> from Robert Nordier at "Mar 3, 1999 12:13: 3 pm" To: rnordier@nordier.com (Robert Nordier) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 06:22:31 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (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 >>>>>> Copy from a message Robert Nordier sent me. <<<<<< > 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 Robert, I had read the README.TXT file before I started and I made two floppies, one using kern.flp and one using mfsroot.flp. I also tried 3 different floppy disks for the kern.flp. I will try a different floppy drive and see if that makes any difference and let the list know. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ _ _ _ _ , Loghome living is the ' ) ) ) / // ' ) / / best ! / / / o _. /_ __. _ // /--/ . . _, /_ _ _ / ' (_<_(__/ /_(_/|_