From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 7:35:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE08C14DE8 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA71537; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:31:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:31:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199906111431.JAA71537@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Len Conrad Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: kernal floppy boot doesn't In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990611143807.00a69a20@go2france.com> References: <519E4F1A60BCD211AC6100805FEA7ACA03505A@SWCC2> <4.2.0.56.19990611143807.00a69a20@go2france.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you made a 3.1-R boot floppy, that will likely fail unless the kernel you are trying to boot is built from 3.1-R sources. /boot/loader and /kernel need to be version matched. Bud Dodson Len Conrad writes: > > >Trying to build a dedicated ipfilter/ipnat machine between DMZ and private > >network, using a Pentium 100 someting, retiring Win95. > > BIOS doesn't support cdrom boot, so created a fbsd 3.1-R boot diskette > using the "dd if=/cdrom/etc" command from Lehey book, dd seems to complete > successfully. > > But two different diskettes fail to boot with: > > zf_read: fill error > elf_load exec: archsw.readin failed > cant load kernel. > > and give a command prompt. > > Help, > Len > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message