From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 16:55:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FF914C0D for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:55:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wotan@Dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by Dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA00667; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:55:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wotan@Dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:55:28 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: Wolfgang_Werner@cbtsys.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp install / boot failure In-Reply-To: <88256723.0001E6BC.00@cbtusa3.cbtsys.com> 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 > > 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:> > ======================================== Are you trying to install 3.1-RELEASE? That is my assumption but I think we need that to give more help. Have you tried different floppies? (Did you check the floppies you used for errors?) Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message