From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 6:26:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from portal.nextemps.com (portal.nextemps.com [208.231.0.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89AC37B710 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:26:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhaas@portal.nextemps.com) Received: from localhost (rhaas@localhost) by portal.nextemps.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA83549 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:27:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rhaas@portal.nextemps.com) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:27:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Haas To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: install problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm attempting to install FreeBSD on one of the PCs in my office. I made 4.0-RELEASE boot disks using kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. When I boot the kern.flp disk, I get the following: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 (root@monster.cdrom.com, Mon Mar 20 21:05:31 GMT 2000) /kernel text=0x1d581e data=0x24c60+0x1a718 zf_read: fill error elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load module '/kernel': input/output error It then appears to try again, and fails with essentially the same error messages. I then get the "ok " prompt. I kind of presume that this is all due to some kind of problem zero-filling the kernel BSS, but I am more or less at a loss as to what would cause such a problem. Pointers to the appropriate documentation/mailing list, or suggestions, would be *greatly* appreciated. Thanks, ...Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message