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Subject: i386/12102: can't boot using the installation boot diskette made by RAWRITE
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>Number:         12102
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       can't boot using the installation boot diskette made by RAWRITE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun  9 12:20:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jeongjun Seo
>Release:        3.1
>Organization:
Network Solutions
>Environment:
Intel Pentuium II 300 Mhz with 128 MB of memory
(I could not get tot he point where I can use "uname" command becasue this problem happened during the first booting for installation.)
>Description:
My PC runs NT 4.0. I completely shutdowned it and inserted a boot floppy to start installation. I turned on the PC with the floppy and I got the following error message during the initial load of the kernel start installation:

---- begin of error messages -----

/kernel text=0x18be72 data=0x2eb35c+0xldcc0 zf_read: fill error

elf_loadexec: archsw.readin.failed
Can't load 'kernel'

---- end of error messages -----

I made the boot floppy using the RAWRITE utility based on the instructions on 'The complete FreeBSD' from the 3.1 CD-ROM. The version o the loader is as follows:

FreeBSD i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.5 638/655 32kB

I would appreciate it if you would let me know how I could work around this failure.

Thank you!

>How-To-Repeat:
Insert the boot floppy made by RAWRITE utility on the 3.1 installtion CD-ROM and reboot the machine.
>Fix:


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