From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 22:54:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.rdc1.on.home.com (femail2.rdc1.on.home.com [24.2.9.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB2037B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:54:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from wilma ([24.114.163.66]) by femail2.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010116065408.QYJT2929.femail2.rdc1.on.home.com@wilma>; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:54:08 -0800 Message-ID: <003e01c07f89$2c980020$0300a8c0@wilma> From: "Dennis Jun" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: , References: <003401c07f83$e79f6440$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:54:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yah, I checked that too, it is 1.44 meg drive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "'Dennis Jun'" ; ; Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 1:16 AM Subject: RE: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn > This may be silly, but have you checked the BIOS to > make sure it doesen't think your 1.4Mb floppy is a > 1.2Mb? Also, try it with a bootable DOS floppy. > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dennis Jun > >Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 3:59 PM > >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; chat@gtabug.org > >Subject: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn > > > > > >Hello all! > > > >I was trying to install FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE yesterday but I got the > >following error when I tried to boot up my kern.flp: > > > >Disk error 0x4 (lba=0x10) > > > >At first I thought I just had a bad floppy so I made another image on > >another floppy but I had same error. Then I tried 4 other > >floppies and I > >still got the same problem. Plus I also tried these same floppies in a > >Win2k box and they seemed alright. Then I thought it might have been my > >actual floppy disk drive so I replaced that with one that I knew that > >worked for sure. Same problem. Then I thought it could have > >been the image > >itself, so I made an image of a previous STABLE image but same problem. > >Then I tried the 4.2-RELEASE image. Same thing. I'm stumped. > > > >Fortunately I had a previous install on this box. I tried to mount the > >floppy drive and I got this error: > > > > ~# mount /dev/fd0a /mnt > >mount: Input/output error > > > >and my /var/messages had this: > > > >Jan 14 18:43:02 sunnie /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn > >18 of 16-31 > >(ST0 44 ST1 4 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1) > > > >Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message