Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:53:38 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Robert Haas <rhaas@nextemps.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problems Message-ID: <395A0362.532B7416@i-clue.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006280926340.83530-100000@portal.nextemps.com>
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Probably you got a bad disk. Check if the MD5 checksums of your disk images match, if neccessary re-download the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images. Create two new floppies, using two new disks -- recently, I got lots of bad floppies out of the box. Robert Haas wrote: > > I'm attempting to install FreeBSD on one of the PCs in my office. I made > 4.0-RELEASE boot disks using kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. When I boot the > kern.flp disk, I get the following: > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 > (root@monster.cdrom.com, Mon Mar 20 21:05:31 GMT 2000) > /kernel text=0x1d581e data=0x24c60+0x1a718 zf_read: fill error > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > can't load module '/kernel': input/output error > > It then appears to try again, and fails with essentially the same error > messages. I then get the "ok " prompt. I kind of presume that this is > all due to some kind of problem zero-filling the kernel BSS, but I am > more or less at a loss as to what would cause such a problem. > > Pointers to the appropriate documentation/mailing list, or suggestions, would > be *greatly* appreciated. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ http://www.freebsd.org/faq/ HTH -Christoph Sold -- i-clue GmbH, Endersbacher Str. 57, D-71334 Waiblingen Fon: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-12, Fax: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-55 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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