Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:31:24 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader and "Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor" Message-ID: <200711171231.25393.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0711161235260.5871@glacier.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0711161235260.5871@glacier.reedmedia.net>
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On Friday 16 November 2007 01:55:06 pm Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Trying to boot PC-BSD 1.4.1 and I get: >=20 > CD Loader 1.2 > Building the boot loader arguments > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found > Read error: 0x10 > Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor =46rom Ralf Brown's interrupt list error codes for disk I/O: 10h uncorrectable CRC or ECC error on read The part about the primary volume descriptor is a bug in cdboot where the read error message doesn't have a trailing \0, so it writes out both errors on a read error. I'll fix that part, but your BIOS is claiming it got a CRC error while trying to read /boot/loader in off the CD. If you mount the CD under a running system can you read all of /boot/loader ok? (Maybe compare md5 with a known good copy of /boot/loader.) =2D-=20 John Baldwin
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