Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 11:31:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert J Lynn Jr (TeChYMaN)" <root@techyman.ml.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: chado@isupply.net, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bad boot disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610112748.1449A-100000@techyman.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610001259.295N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Actually.... Bad disks, or disks that were found under your bed from 5 years ago "Hey, i wondered where that went!", or even just had too much on them (like 5 kb away from 1464) dont work. I've had that problem. Use an unfromatted or unused disk. - -TeChY - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Robert J. Lynn Jr. (TeChYMaN, TechyMan, rjlynn, TeChY) "What does rm -rf * do?" Owner/Operator Williamsport Computer Owner/Operator TeChYMaN's BSD Shells KidsWorld Sr. Helper On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Doug White wrote: > 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:<ENTER> > > > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNX6mug2MC48AN/7zEQIrwwCgjsjDc113wHlu3tWcq1SFlyWOGl0An35R zK9zEv7dJWDjBKSAflMColSf =Ohgt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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