Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:59:27 -0500 (EST) From: Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca> To: Dennis Jun <dennisjun@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, chat@gtabug.org Subject: Re: gtabug - Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.20.0101141958460.27667-100000@grendel.bts> In-Reply-To: <001a01c07e85$ec793350$0300a8c0@wilma>
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Hardware? Maybe a flakey ribbon cable or power supply connector. Ciao --Louis <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dennis Jun wrote: > Hello all! > > I was trying to install FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE yesterday but I got the > following error when I tried to boot up my kern.flp: > > Disk error 0x4 (lba=0x10) > > At first I thought I just had a bad floppy so I made another image on > another floppy but I had same error. Then I tried 4 other floppies and I > still got the same problem. Plus I also tried these same floppies in a > Win2k box and they seemed alright. Then I thought it might have been my > actual floppy disk drive so I replaced that with one that I knew that > worked for sure. Same problem. Then I thought it could have been the image > itself, so I made an image of a previous STABLE image but same problem. > Then I tried the 4.2-RELEASE image. Same thing. I'm stumped. > > Fortunately I had a previous install on this box. I tried to mount the > floppy drive and I got this error: > > <sunnie> ~# mount /dev/fd0a /mnt > mount: Input/output error > > and my /var/messages had this: > > Jan 14 18:43:02 sunnie /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 16-31 > (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1) > > Any ideas? > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@gtabug.org with the text > "subscribe chat" or "unsubscribe chat" in the body. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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