From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 1:32:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3625837B69C for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f0G9VYd26926; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:31:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (tedsbox [192.168.1.20]) by toybox.placo.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA10127; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:25:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "'Dennis Jun'" Cc: , Subject: RE: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:25:50 -0800 Message-ID: <003d01c07f9e$518e1440$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <003e01c07f89$2c980020$0300a8c0@wilma> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What about a bootable DOS floppy? Ted 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: Monday, January 15, 2001 10:54 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; chat@gtabug.org >Subject: Re: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn > > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message