Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 13:40:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "William E. Pflum Jr.- IS Specialist, A.D. Moyer" <isspecialist@admoyer.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2 boot floppy will not work Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907021339170.98238-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000801bec3e7$aa164340$d7000064@isspecialist>
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, William E. Pflum Jr.- IS Specialist, A.D. Moyer wrote: > 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. It sounds like y ou're using two different versions of the kern and boot floppy images. Where are you getting them from? Are you downloading them in binary mode? How are you writing the images to disks? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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