From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 7 05:24:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA18208 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 05:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA18201 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 05:24:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17397; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:14:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199807071214.IAA17397@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: Error 14 during install from boot floppy In-Reply-To: from "wayward@telefusion.com" at "Jul 7, 98 01:31:07 am" To: wayward@telefusion.com Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:14:52 -0400 (EDT) Cc: kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wayward@telefusion.com wrote: > 8MB RAM installed. When the computer is turned on and the BIOS checks the > memory it reads as '7808KB OK'. > > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 wayward@telefusion.com wrote: > > > > => I'm running a 386DX33 with a 1.2GB hard disk. I'm trying to do an FTP > > => installation using boot.flp. I've tried three different floppies, at > > => least one of which had worked on a previous installation on a Pentium, > > => formatted on three different machines and one of them was the Pentium with > > => FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE. Every time I boot the system from the floppy it > > => goes to the kernel configuration just fine. And when I save the settings > > => and exit it finds all the devices specified. But then it can't find init. > > => I keep getting 'error 14' for every directory in the path. Then it says > > => 'init not found', 'panic: init not found' and proceeds to automatically > > => reboot and start the process all over again. > > => > > => Obviously I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what. Any clues? > > => Any recommendations? These are random ideas, also called /guesses/: You have enough mem. (Did such an install just last month). Floppy drives and floppy drive controllers fail. I have seen combinations that worked under DOS, worked under Linux and 'BSD, stopped working under Unix, /but still worked for DOS/. Hardware replacement cured the problem. There is a floppy/IDE controller, called the GSI-32 which is a real source of bad floppy controlling. The second one has now shown this failure mode: I can boot DOS / linux/ *BSD from floppy, but no Unix sees the floppy later. Try swapping in a different floppy drive and/or controller. Insure in the 386's bios that all fancy memory options (Shadowing, in particular), are disabled. Make the BIOS setup as vanilla as possible. Use a less aggressive bus speed, if possible. Try disabling cache memory if possible. Try /skipping/ the kernel config, unless you actually /have/ conflicting devices. Maybe you're configuring something away you need. -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message