From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 9:31:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB58114CE9 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wotan@dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA10947; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:30:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wotan@dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:30:22 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: Michael D Hughes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 3.1 install In-Reply-To: <199903021543.JAA02449@logcabin.woods.bridge.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Michael D Hughes wrote: > I just got me 3.1 4 CD set yesterday in the mail. But after making the > two boot floppies, I get the following error when the system boots: > > /kernel text=0x18be9a zf_read: fill error > elf_loadexec:archsw.readin failed > can't load module '/kernel': input/output error. > > This is a 486DX4 CPU with 8 Meg memory. I have run 2.2.8 on this machine > without any problems. Can anyone help on this???? Did you see if the floppies had bad sectors on them? Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message