From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 27 11:30:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22294 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:30:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (ppp010-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22287 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA28876; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:30:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199704271830.LAA28876@superior.mooseriver.com> Subject: Re: more help.. In-Reply-To: <3363951A.7777@wam.umd.edu> from Mike at "Apr 27, 97 02:04:10 pm" To: gustoma@wam.umd.edu Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:30:20 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] 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 Mike said: >On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Kevin Eliuk wrote: > >> I've noticed a lot of reports of problems with fdimage. I couldn't have it >> work for me. You will probably have greater luck with rawrite.exe. > >hmm.. thanks, rawrite worked, but alas, there's more problems. I reboot >with the disk, and get the FreeBSD boot message, then after it boots, I >don't know what happens, but then it tells me: Error: D:0x0 C:2 H:1 S:17 >But, it's not bad enough that it tells me something's wrong, it repeats >it, OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!! (as if to rub it in) > >perhaps, my system just isn't compatible.. >thanks again. >mike. > It has been my experience that this error indicates a bad floppy disk. Try copying the boot image to a freshly formated floppy. If you are using Windows to format the floppy make sure NOT to do a quick format. The quick format, if I am not misken, just wipes the FAT. What you want is a format that will mark the bad sectors. If the format comes back with any sectors marked bad, try another floppy. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.1 jgrosch@sirius.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses