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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:52:51 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: rfg@monkeys.com
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Subject: Re: Bummer... Trying to install WITHOUT DOS
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On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 02:20:35AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> In message <19970911184639.57405@lemis.com>, you wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 01:33:09AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I just got the FreeBSD 2.2.2 VCD ROM from Walnut Creek and made the
>>> requsite boot floppy from it, as directed.
>>>
>>> The boot floppy boots up to the Boot: brompt OK, but then after about
>>> 5 seconds it takes off running and just generates a long stream of
>>> repeating device errors of some sort.
>>
>> Of what sort?  At this point you should be getting a twirling baton.
>
> The baton just barely starts to twirl, and then I get an endless
> stream of message that all say:
>
> 	Error: D:0x0 C:0 H:1 S:0
>
> repeating over and over again.

That's what I thought.

> I have no idea what these mean.  Please enlighten me.

Error.  Disk 0, cylinder 0, head 1, sector 0.

>> Report the error message.  If it's telling you that it can't your
>> floppy, throw it away and start again.
>
> Is that what the above message means??  That I just have a bad floppy??

Yup.  It happens so often that I wonder if we don't have a bug in the
floppy driver.  But it *does* go away with a new floppy.  In case of
doubt, format it first.

Greg