From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 10 00:16:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA14136 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:16:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (metriclient-7.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14121 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA00901; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:13:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: chado@isupply.net cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Bad boot disk In-Reply-To: <199806052300.TAA21601@server1.isupply.net> 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 Fri, 5 Jun 1998 chado@isupply.net wrote: > I have downloaded the 2.2.6 boot.flp and the fdimage.exe from your site. > I created the boot disk using c:\fdimage boot.flp a: > > After all is said and done and I attempt to boot off of the boot disk I > receive a read error. I have done this with two different diskettes to > rule out bad disks. Is there anything else that you may know of that > would cause this? Odd to see that on a boot floppy. usually it happens to hard disks. :-/ what BIOS do you have? Try re-downloading the disk image and using a brand-new disk. Make sure you use binary mode when downloading the disk image. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message