From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 16:47:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Ogun.cbtsys.com (unknown [204.31.92.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A1314C49 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:46:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Wolfgang_Werner@cbtsys.com) Received: from cbtusa3.cbtsys.com ([204.31.92.21]) by Ogun.cbtsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA18803 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:38:01 -0800 From: Wolfgang_Werner@cbtsys.com Received: by cbtusa3.cbtsys.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.06 (346.8 3-18-1997)) id 88256723.00043C91 ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:46:16 -0700 X-Lotus-FromDomain: CBTSYSTEMS To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <88256723.0001E6BC.00@cbtusa3.cbtsys.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:40:20 -0700 Subject: ftp install / boot failure Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Wolfgang Werner@CBTSYSTEMS on 02/24/99 04:40 PM PAST a few months ago I successfully installed via ftp freeBSD onto an i386 machine; the startup process used only one (1) floppy generated from your links. I voraciously spread the good word about freeBSD. The system was an old Gateway 2000 model p5-120. NOW I can not install freeBSD onto i386 machine: Gateway 2000 model e3000 (p5-200) FLOPPY BOOT FAILURE. Now to bring up another machine (due to the first having catastrophic hw failures) my attempt consistently fails in the boot process - I can not get to the setup of NIC for access to the ftp site. I have createdthe KERN and MFSROOT floppies (many times). Starting with KERN followed by MFSROOT I get: ================================ FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.5 638/65532kB (jkh@time.cdrom.com, Mon Feb15 13:26:18 CMT 1999) /kernel text=0x18be9a data=0x1b338+0x1dccc syms=[0x4+0x23c30+0x4+0x243bb] Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: [At this point I swap floppies and after pressing enter and waiting for about 2 - 5 seconds I see on the screen:] can't find'/mfsroot' Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel] root device disk0s4a: invalid Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. disk0s4a:> [when I now type ls and wait for about 2-5 seconds I see on the screen:] open '/'failed: input/output error disk0s4a:> ======================================== QUESTIONS 1. If you are able to provide the 1 floppy bootup process to me would you please do so? 2. What is the problem? Thank you, Wolfgang Werner CBT Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message