From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 20 16:41:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA02462 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02443 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA27009; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:26:44 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199706202226.XAA27009@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: EMANUELE COSTA cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 2.2.1 release In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:43:56 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:26:44 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > I've just downloaded the 2.2.1 release of freebsd and I've got a > big problem! > Whenever I try to use the boot disk it happens that while > expanding or decompressing the kernel a "bad crc error" occurs and > consequently the system crashes, ( it needs a cold reboot!). > I tried the disk on different computers and it worked fine, so I > decided to test all the various version and what I get is: > > 1) 2.1.7 can boot, ( no errors) > 2) 2.2.1 error > 3) 2.2.2 error [.....] I'd try writing a 2.2.1 image on your disk 1) and a 2.1.7 image on disk 2) to make sure that it's not a media thing. Some floppy drives just refuse to read stuff formatted by others - although it's not so common these days. > EMANUELE > > -- > e-mail: costa@unix.lancs.ac.uk > http://www.leganordsen.it/ > > -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....