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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: 5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems
In-Reply-To: <200008281748.KAA03246@mass.osd.bsdi.com> "from Mike Smith at Aug
 28, 2000 10:48:46 am"
To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:02:18 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com, mpp@mppsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
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Mike Smith writes:
> > > > /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.
> 
> Only if you've been silly enough to only put *half* of boot.flp on a 
> disk.  If it's all there, it works just fine. 8)

Doesn't matter how silly it is -- I can guarantee you that at least one
person has done it :-)

-Archie

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