From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 12 15:19:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F9237B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f40.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E1343F13 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:19:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve_gladstone@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:19:36 -0800 Received: from 80.195.10.136 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:19:35 GMT X-Originating-IP: [80.195.10.136] From: "Steve Gladstone" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Newbie needs help with installation tasks. Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:19:35 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jan 2003 23:19:36.0267 (UTC) FILETIME=[1277F1B0:01C2BA91] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.7R on an Intel Celeron 300MHz PC which has a 4GB hard drive and Windows 98 installed. I have used Partition Magic to shrink the Windows partition on my hard drive from 4GB to 3GB and created a 1GB partition for the FreeBSD installation. Partition Magic didn't offer support for preparing a partition for FreeBSD installation so I elected to create a FAT32 partition reasoning that the FreeBSD installation process would reformat the partition for the required file system. I downloaded 4.7-mini.iso from FreeBSD.org and used Nero/Express to burn the file system to a CD-R disk. I viewed the CD-R disk with a utility called ISOBUSTER and it appeared to be a bootable CDROM. I marked my 1GB partition as active and rebooted my PC, after selecting CDROM as the first device in my BIOS settings. I got an error message 'Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM ; Failure...' Invalid system disk I searched the available docs on the Internet and concluded that I would have to boot from floppies as my PC would not allow booting from the CDROM device, despite the BIOS settings. I formatted two floppy disks and used the /tools/fdimage utility on the CD-R disk to copy /floppies/kern.flp and /floppies/mfsroot.flp to the floppy disks. I rebooted again with the new partition marked as active after selecting the floppy drive as the first boot device in the BIOS settings. I got the FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader message as expected but instead of being prompted to insert the mfsroot disk I got the following messages... /kernel text=0x2833b1 zf_read: unexpected EOF zf_read: unexpected EOF elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed. can't load module '/kernel'; input/output error. The boot process then indicated that it was... Booting [kernel] and promptly produced the same error messages as before indicating that it could not load 'kernel' or 'kernel.old' Until two days ago I didn't have any prior experience with CD-R burning, using Partition Magic, or installation of a UNIX operating system so I am quite prepared to believe I have made mistakes in the pre-installation tasks. However, after searching the Internet for descriptions of similar problems I am unsure how to proceed. I would appreciate any advice on why I couldn't install from the CD-R DISK and/or why I can't boot from the floppies. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message