From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 16:49:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from castle.dreaming.org (host-170.creativehouse.maxlink.com [216.221.214.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E62A37B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:48:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from Laptop (cr592943-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com [24.156.38.199]) by castle.dreaming.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0F0mCn93985; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:48:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mit@mitayai.net) From: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" To: "Dennis Jun" , , Subject: RE: gtabug - Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:48:07 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <001a01c07e85$ec793350$0300a8c0@wilma> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmmm... what are you using to copy the disk images? if UNIX, i use... dd if=DISKNAME.flp of=/dev/fd0 (fd0=a:) if NT/2000/9x, i use the fdimage program from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools : fdimage -f 1.44M -v DISKNAM>.flp a: For the x86 disk images, DISKNAME should be mfsroot and kern from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386//floppies/ For I use 4.2-RELEASE, or sometimes i grab a snapshot from ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ Some things i've experienced... A problem i had once was i downloaded the disk image in ASCII mode... My assistant once discovered that the disk images he had downloaded were bad, but after a re-download they worked fine. Weird, but it happens... I also once screwed it up 'cause i has my BIOS thinking it was a 1.2M drive... Hope this helps... Mit :-----Original Message----- :From: owner-chat@gtabug.org [mailto:owner-chat@gtabug.org]On Behalf Of :Dennis Jun :Sent: January 14, 2001 18:59 PM :To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; chat@gtabug.org :Subject: gtabug - Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn : : :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: : : ~# 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 ST1 4 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