From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 14 23:13:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9492437B767 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.81]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:24:40 -0700 Message-ID: <38F80882.9CAB49B0@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:13:22 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gunnar Flygt Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to install 4.0-STABLE on laptop References: <20000414232518.A61970@sr.se> <20000415080626.A74649@sr.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:32:21PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > > > > Is there anyone else getting the same problems as I? > > > > > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 > > > (root@usw3.freebsd.org, Fri Apr 14 10:03:22 GMT 2000) > > > /kernel text=0x1d7e3e zf_read: fill error > > > > > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > > > can't load module ´/kernel´: input/output error > > > > > > > Either you have a bad floppy, your floppy drive is bad (my drive won't > > read to the end of the disk, giving similiar errors), or you are trying to > > No, I should have told you. It works if I run it on my stationary PII > 266 Siemens, Have you got a Toshiba with the bad floppy controller in it. That floppy drive may just be aligned different enough that it won't read it. You might format the floppies using it and then fdimage the files to the disks. > > > boot boot.flp instead of kern.flp/mfsroot.flp (not likely since you say > > you are booting kern.flp). > > I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.2. I'm not booting from boot.flp. :) Kent > > -- > __o > regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ > email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message