From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 1 10:34:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post2.fast.net (post2.fast.net [198.69.204.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A84114C14 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:34:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from isspecialist@admoyer.com) Received: from isspecialist (maxtnt02-abe-120.fast.net [209.92.7.120]) by post2.fast.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA08896 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:34:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "William E. Pflum Jr.- IS Specialist, A.D. Moyer" To: Subject: 3.2 boot floppy will not work Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:32:16 -0400 Message-ID: <000801bec3e7$aa164340$d7000064@isspecialist> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've downloaded FreeBSD and tried to install it to a 486 DX 120 with 40 megs of ram but I'm having a problem. No matter how many times I download the kern.fpl and make a floppy with it, I cannot get the machine to boot. I've tried several different floppies, several different machines to make the boot disk and 2 completely different types of floppy drives and still get the same results. What I get is a 'archsw.readin failed'. It looks like it tries to load the bootstrap program, crashes and then I get a prompt on the screen. I can ls the disk and see the files but if I try to force a kernel load I get another crash. The really weird part is if I put the same disk in another machine it boots up correctly and wants to start the install and to top it off if I make a disk with the 2.xxx version of FreeBSD it boots fine on the 486!!!!! What gives? I wanted to use FreeBSD as a webserver on our intranet system to make it easier to have different machines, apples and PCs, access databases and general information, Unless I can get this installed I'll consider going and getting a Linux system and trying it. This can't be this difficult, what am I doing wrong??? William E. Pflum Jr.-IS Specialist, A.D. Moyer Email: isspecialist@admoyer.com Voice: 610-367-0381 Fax: 610-367-1043 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message