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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:50:13 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
To:        Jim King <king@sstar.com>
Cc:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Soft Error - Error #10 - FDC: Data overrun or underrun
Message-ID:  <20000411205013.M410@yedi.wbnet>
In-Reply-To: <004901bfa3e4$b9baeed0$a44b8486@jking>; from king@sstar.com on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 01:35:33PM -0500
References:  <200004111749.NAA06411@blackhelicopters.org> <004901bfa3e4$b9baeed0$a44b8486@jking>

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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 01:35:33PM -0500, Jim King wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 11, 2000 12:49 PM, Michael Lucas wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks to all who replied on the boot problem.  I now have a new problem.
> >
> > The system is a Multia.  I can get it to run the first install floppy,
> > but the error
> >
> > *** Soft Error - Error #10 - FDC: Data overrun or underrun
> > Diagnostic Name ID Device Pass Test Hard/Soft 11-APR-2020
> > boot 000000089 err_iob 0 0 0 15 18:00:23
> >
> > (copied by hand, sorry)
> >
> > The first boot floppy finishes loading, and the system asks for the
> > second boot floppy.  I put in the second boot floppy, and the
> > "mount_mfsroot -t blah" message flashes.  An eyeblink later, I'm at
> > the SMC console again.
> >
> > Any thoughts, anyone?
> 
> Multia floppy drives are notoriously flaky.  You might want to try a couple
> more times just to see if you get lucky, or you could try some different
> floppy disks.
> 
> If you have the 4.0 CD you should be able to boot from that.
> 
> You can try netbooting.  I've heard that this works. :-)

Netbooting Multias is one of them other problem areas... Go for the CD boot
I'd say

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