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To: Abbas.Karbassian@cambridge.simoco.com (Abbas Karbassian x7148)
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Subject: Re: Freebsd3.1 failes to boot up
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Abbas.Karbassian@cambridge.simoco.com (Abbas Karbassian x7148) writes:

> 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.

Discard these floppies and keep trying new ones until you get one with 
no bad sectors.  Buy some if you have to.

> 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"

It looks like part of the kernel was supposed to be on the sector that 
was bad.
-- 
I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready
to make the commitment.


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