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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:13:32 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Failed to Load Kernel
Message-ID:  <20100105191332.GA30106@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <4B435791.3020005@daleco.biz>
References:  <4B42EA80.70005@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4B435791.3020005@daleco.biz>

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On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 09:15:29AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>=20
> I'm rather astounded that no one has responded to your
> email as of yet.  IANAE, but here goes:

For my part -- I just hadn't seen it before this.  I'm surprised there
aren't more replies too, though.


>=20
> Could that be "readln"?  Been too long since I saw it.
> The typo below makes me assume you're typing from the
> view on the the monitor.  Bad news is, ev'ry time I've
> seen this, it's because of bad media.  I've not seen it
> for years, though, and then, it was always on floppy
> installs, which, I think, are the posterboy for "bad media"
> on Google or Wikipedia or summat.

It could just be a bad burn.  It happens sometimes, even with a good ISO
for the disk.  Burning again on a different disk might make the
difference, if that's the case.


>=20
> I'm guessing there's some issue we're both unaware of.  Perhaps
> someone with a better grok on the situation will post.

Alas, I don't know anything more about the situation than you do, I
guess.  I hope someone else has more information.


>=20
> That's good to hear.  As I mentioned, hopefully someone else
> will have a better clue on this, as I've not had the problem
> for years.  I've also not burned a CD for FreeBSD on Windows
> *ever*, so I'm thinking it could be related to that, somehow
> or other, despite the fact that you can "see" everything.  But
> then again, maybe I just don't trust Windows programs ;-)

I sympathize.  All my FreeBSD CDs have been burned on Debian or FreeBSD.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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