From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 6:53:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950B737B64A for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA03465; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:55:58 +0200 Message-ID: <395A0362.532B7416@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:53:38 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Haas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Probably you got a bad disk. Check if the MD5 checksums of your disk images match, if neccessary re-download the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images. Create two new floppies, using two new disks -- recently, I got lots of bad floppies out of the box. Robert Haas wrote: > > 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. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ http://www.freebsd.org/faq/ HTH -Christoph Sold -- i-clue GmbH, Endersbacher Str. 57, D-71334 Waiblingen Fon: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-12, Fax: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-55 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message