From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 20:14:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc01.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc01.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD83315BD7 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:14:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Received: from oemcomputer ([12.74.2.102]) by mtiwmhc01.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07.07 118-134) with SMTP id <20000110041424.XYKJ5516@oemcomputer>; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 04:14:24 +0000 From: "freebsd" To: "Roger P. Johnson" , Subject: RE: 3.3R/3.4R: can't make it to sysinstall from boot floppies for system install ... Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 21:14:52 -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 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <200001100225.UAA28513@fep.hirshfields.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i had this same problem and had to redo the master boot record because i previously had NT 4.0 on the drive. a fdisk /mbr from a dos booted floppy with fdisk.exe on it of course will help. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Roger P. Johnson Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 9:26 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.3R/3.4R: can't make it to sysinstall from boot floppies for system install ... 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message