From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 7:59:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.go2france.com (go2france.com [209.51.193.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3309615201 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:59:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lconrad@Go2France.com) Received: from superviseur [62.161.63.210] by mail.go2france.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.03) id A02C54D01EC; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:33:32 EST5EDT Message-Id: <4.2.0.56.19990611165527.00af62a0@go2france.com> X-Sender: lconrad@go2france.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.56 (Beta) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:57:45 +0200 To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: kernal floppy boot doesn't Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <37610C7D.536ED874@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <4.2.0.56.19990611143807.00a69a20@go2france.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, 64 megs. I'm, happily, not pursuing this anymore since the cdrom drive turned out to be bootable after all. I think the diskette drive is sick, it's certainly old, rarely used, Paris air is filthy, and the drive just couldn't read the innermost tracks. Len =============== >Does your machine have more than 12 Megs ? (minimum for 3.x) > > TfH > >Len Conrad wrote: > > > > >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 > > > > 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