From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 16:36:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from FENIX.LOCALHOST.NL (CC4140-a.sneek1.fr.nl.home.com [212.120.108.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E7E37B59C for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:36:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fenix@FENIX.LOCALHOST.NL) Received: from localhost (fenix@localhost) by FENIX.LOCALHOST.NL (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA04368; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 01:36:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from fenix@FENIX.LOCALHOST.NL) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 01:36:29 +0200 (CEST) From: "FENIX.LOCALHOST.NL" To: "Wosek, Aaron" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4 boot problem In-Reply-To: <60AB304AAE36D411821500D0B7441D6861719E@bozeman.pwrh.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 As far as i have had the simular problem it was always the floppy that was corrupt, and i was always thinking that it isnt, also try making the floppy's on a different mashine and format them with /u option if you are doing this in dos. Greets Fenix On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Wosek, Aaron wrote: > I'm installing 3.4 and I'm encountering boot disk problems. The error I'm > getting says: > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:fd(O,a)/kernel > boot: > disk error 0x2 (lba=0x10) > No /kernel > > I'm attempting to install 3.4 onto an empty hard disk, that has had no other > operating system installed. > > Can someone tell me if they have seen this before and how to remedy it. > > A couple things to note: The PC will boot with the 2.2.8 boot disk, and > previous to a hardware change the 3.4 boot disks worked. I have tried 2 > different sets of 3.4 boot disks that both worked before the hardware > change. The hardware change was the swapping of an industrial PC backplane > ---something I would not think could effect or be limited by FBSD. Also I am > not using the corrupt 3.4 CD boot files, but boot disks from the website. > > Thanks > > > Aaron Wosek > QA/PS Systems Support > Anchor Gaming > 2311 S. 7th Avenue > Bozeman MT. 59715 > 406.585.6655 extension 5126 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message