From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 14 23:22:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9794A37B6EB for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:22:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA13919 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:22:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA05377 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:22:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA75164 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:22:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:22:30 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: FreeBSD Stable Users Subject: Re: Trying to install 4.0-STABLE on laptop Message-ID: <20000415082230.C74649@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <20000414232518.A61970@sr.se> <20000414173656.I18075@stat.Duke.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000414173656.I18075@stat.Duke.EDU>; from sean@stat.Duke.EDU on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:36:56PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU > Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 > Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 -- __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