Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:32:16 -0400 From: "William E. Pflum Jr.- IS Specialist, A.D. Moyer" <isspecialist@admoyer.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: 3.2 boot floppy will not work Message-ID: <000801bec3e7$aa164340$d7000064@isspecialist>
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I've downloaded FreeBSD and tried to install it to a 486 DX 120 with 40 megs of ram but I'm having a problem. No matter how many times I download the kern.fpl and make a floppy with it, I cannot get the machine to boot. I've tried several different floppies, several different machines to make the boot disk and 2 completely different types of floppy drives and still get the same results. What I get is a 'archsw.readin failed'. It looks like it tries to load the bootstrap program, crashes and then I get a prompt on the screen. I can ls the disk and see the files but if I try to force a kernel load I get another crash. The really weird part is if I put the same disk in another machine it boots up correctly and wants to start the install and to top it off if I make a disk with the 2.xxx version of FreeBSD it boots fine on the 486!!!!! What gives? I wanted to use FreeBSD as a webserver on our intranet system to make it easier to have different machines, apples and PCs, access databases and general information, Unless I can get this installed I'll consider going and getting a Linux system and trying it. This can't be this difficult, what am I doing wrong??? William E. Pflum Jr.-IS Specialist, A.D. Moyer Email: isspecialist@admoyer.com Voice: 610-367-0381 Fax: 610-367-1043 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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