From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 10:45:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mppsystems.com (mppsystems.com [208.210.148.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080CD37B43F for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mppsystems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA19808; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:45:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:45:04 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard To: Archie Cobbs Cc: John Baldwin , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems Message-ID: <20000828124504.A19745@mppsystems.com> References: <200008280129.SAA42115@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <200008281723.KAA69738@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200008281723.KAA69738@bubba.whistle.com>; from archie@whistle.com on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:23:34AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:23:34AM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > John Baldwin writes: > > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 > > > (root@usw2.freebsd.org, Sat Aug 26 11:14:35 GMT 2000) > > > /kernel text=0x2432ca zf_read: fill error > > > > > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > > > > Your floppy is bad. Try a different one. > > Not necessarily. This also happens if you try to boot boot.flp > instead of kern.flp. It turns out it was a bad floppy, which I didn't even think of because I don't think I've had a bad floppy disk in years and years (plus I had been up all night beating my head on the desk over the whole mess). Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm now typing this message from the machine that I had to do the re-install on, so all is good. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message