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From: Abbas.Karbassian@cambridge.simoco.com (Abbas Karbassian x7148)
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Subject: Freebsd3.1 failes to boot up
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Hi:

I am using freebsd3.1.

I have craeted a boot floppy under dos or windows 98.

Using the following commands:

D:

tools\rawrite floppies\boot.flp

when the boot floppy created, the message was displayed:
"one bad sector"

I used another floppy disk and the same thing happed again.


Then I used the created boot floppy to boot up my pc to freebsd.

Following messages are appeared on monitor and pc failed to boot up 
in to Freebsd.

Here is the follwing messages.


Verifying DMI Pool Data ....
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.00
Console: Internal video/keyboard
Bios drive A: is disk0
Bios drive C: is disk1

FreeBSD/I386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.5 639/65472KB
(jkh@time.cdrom.com Mon Feb 15 13:26:18 GMT 1999)
Hit[Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting[kernel]...

/kernel text=0x18be72 data=0x2eb35c + 0x1dcc0 zf_read:fill error

elf_loadexec:archsw.readin failed
Can not load "kernel"

Type "?" for a list of command, "help" for more detail help

disk0s4a>


My machine is consist of Abit BX6(rev2 ) Mother board.
Intel Celeron 400 Slot 1 CPU
IBM 16.8 GIG H/D


I would be grateful if you could help.


Regards


Abbas


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