From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 16:30:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA06308 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:30:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA06300 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA28006; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:00:05 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970911090005.46809@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:00:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen Brown Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation help References: <34171492.63AA791C@net1plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <34171492.63AA791C@net1plus.com>; from Stephen Brown on Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 05:43:47PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 05:43:47PM -0400, Stephen Brown wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD on my machine, but I ran into a problem > with the boot disk. What happens is I get this error message after the > boot prompt that continuously says:"error: d:0x0 c:64 h:1 s:13" (I don't > know if it matters but I can't remember if the letters were capitalized > or not) I then tried typing -c at the boot prompt and still got the same > thing. I checked the hardware compatability list and I really don't > think I have anything that is incompatible. Your boot floppy. The message is telling you that you have a defective sector on your floppy. Try: 1. Throw the floppy away. It's not worth wasting your time on. 2. Take a new floppy. Format it. Try again. Greg