From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 17:48:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA29338 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:48:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA28663 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:44:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA07471; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:31:28 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603270201.MAA07471@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: IBM PS/1 Installation Help To: splice@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu (Splice) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:31:27 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Splice" at Mar 26, 96 05:04:27 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Splice stands accused of saying: > It freezes after a few lines of init stuff and a few seconds and > repeatedly outputs this line indefinitely: > > Error: C:64 H:0 S:4 You need to use a _freshly_formatted_ floppy with _no_ bad sectors. This message means that sector 4 on track 64 is unreadable. (A more verbose message would reduce the already minimal space in the boot code) > Now I know I had a problem getting Linux to work on my system because for > some reason, IBM doesn't store any hard drive geometry in bios, but I got This may make trouble for you later, but if your disk reports the same geometry as the BIOS uses, or you can determine the BIOS geometry, you'll be fine. > - Patrick -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[