From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 19:16:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A0C414BE7 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 19:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rpj@fep.hirshfields.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id VAA12081 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 21:15:48 -0600 (CST) Received: (from rpj@localhost) by fep.hirshfields.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28513 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:25:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rpj) From: "Roger P. Johnson" Message-Id: <200001100225.UAA28513@fep.hirshfields.com> Subject: 3.3R/3.4R: can't make it to sysinstall from boot floppies for system install ... To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:25:57 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have both the Walnut Creek CD-ROM FreeBSD 3.3 and FreeBSD 3.4 Release. I am unable to get to the sysinstall program to install FreeBSD when booting for either fresh install or upgrade. I don't get that far. Here's how I made my boot floppies from CD-ROM for both releases: dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rsd0 dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/rsd0 Trying the 3.3 Release floppies to boot, here is what I get for messages: [insert 3.3. kern.flp boot floppy and power cycle the PC] kernel text= zf_read: fill error elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load module '/kernel': input/output error Hit [Enter] to blah blah ... End of story for 3.3 ... Trying the 3.4 Relase floppies to boot, here is what I get for messages: [insert 3.4. kern.flp boot floppy and power cycle the PC] kernel text= data= sysm= Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: [switch floppies and enter] zf_read: fill error Hit [Enter] to ... probes hardware as usual, shows devices/drivers etc waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle changing root device to fd0c root device 2880 blah ... exec /stand/sysinstall: error 8 init: not found panic: no init End of story for 3.4 ... Q: What is the zf_read error I get on both releases? Q: Is this normal for all users? Q: Is is serious or can I disreguard this message? Q: I am using the correct boot floppies in the correct order right? Q: I'm dumb founded at this point. Now what? I've read through all the .txt files on the CD-ROM. I may have misssed something. I've searched freebsd.og for zf_read error and found nothing. This is my first entry into the 3.X releases. Everything I have is in the 2.X, thus I have done about 75-100 installs of 2.X no problems ever, but I'm stuck here. Help! Here is my hardware setup: DEC 333i: 333MHz Pentium II, 64 MB RAM Adaptec 2940UW, 1st SCSI HD has NTWS 4.0 2nd SCSI HD has FreeBSD 2.2.7R Seagate SCSI DAT tape drive Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Matrox Millenium II graphics card 1.44MB Floppy drive IDE CD-ROM. PS/2 Mouse, The onboard SCSI and onboard ethernet is diabled in the BIOS (both unsupported versions in the 2.X branch) thus the Adaptec and NIC. What gives? Roger rjohnson@hirshfields.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message