Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:22:30 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: FreeBSD Stable Users <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Trying to install 4.0-STABLE on laptop Message-ID: <20000415082230.C74649@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <20000414173656.I18075@stat.Duke.EDU>; from sean@stat.Duke.EDU on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:36:56PM -0400 References: <20000414232518.A61970@sr.se> <20000414173656.I18075@stat.Duke.EDU>
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On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:36:56PM -0400, Sean O'Connell wrote:
> Gunnar Flygt stated:
> > Is there anyone else getting the same problems as I?
> >
> > Problem is, I start the kern floppy and get:
> > /boot.config: -P
> > Keyboard:yes
> >
> > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
> > Console: internal video/keyboard
> > BIOS drive A: is disk0
> > BIOS drive C: is disk1
> > BIOS 639kB/64448kB available memory
> >
> > 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
> >
> > And then I get the "Hit [Enter] to boot..." prompt. And the only
> > possible thing to do at the "ok" prompt is to type reboot or turn of the
> > power.
> >
> > I get this on two laptops (both doing a good job with other OS'es), one
> > Dell Latitude CPi, and one IBM Thinkpad 770 ED.
> >
> > Where it reads "zf_error" the little propeller swirls for quite some
> > time before the error message comes.
>
> My first bet would be to throw the floppy away and start
> with a new one that passes an fdformat before you dd the
> kern.flp image on it. I have had very similare problems
> bite me and the solution was to toss the floppy and start
> over.
Made it with a new floppy. The reason I hadn't tried the obvious, was
that it ran fine on the Siemens stationary that had produced the floppy.
So I didn't suspect the floppy. Thanks, and also thanks to Chris D.
Faulhaber who suggested the same but without first trying fdformat on
the floppy. I'll make that a standard procedure of mine :)
>
> S
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