From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 12:17: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zorro.methos.net (ns2.aquik.net [216.54.55.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57A7A37B510 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:16:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmaple@methos.net) Received: (qmail 97656 invoked by uid 500); 20 Apr 2000 19:25:08 -0000 Received: from intra.acgva.net (HELO acgpdc) (216.54.63.4) by methos.net with SMTP; 20 Apr 2000 19:25:08 -0000 From: "David C. Maple" To: Subject: Problem booting from floppies for alpha install Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:22:07 -0400 Message-ID: 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This relates to the installation of FreeBSD on a Multia. I am getting a recurring error when trying to run the install from the boot floppies. I have tried several disks, so I know they are good. I suspect that the floppy drive itself may be bad. The error I'm getting follows: *** Soft Error - Error #10 - FDC: Data overrun or underrun Diagnostic Name ID Device Pass Test Hard/Soft 20-APR-2020 boot 00000020 err_iob 0 0 0 22 14:55:24 *** End of Error *** This repeats several times then asks for the mfs disk. The same error repeats during the read of the mfs disk and then I get dumped back out at the prompt. Am I correct that it should begin the installation there or am I supposed to type something here to start the install? Thanks, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message