Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 07:52:18 +0100 From: "Thierry.herbelot" <herbelot@cybercable.fr> To: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2 Message-ID: <38D71C22.62A29CCE@cybercable.fr> References: <20000321150940.A13226@patho.gen.nz>
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Joe Abley wrote: > > Problem report booting 4.0-RELEASE follows. > > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: yes > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > BIOS 639kB/56256kB available memory > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 > (jkh@monster.cdrom.com, Wed Mar 15 01:23:43 GMT 2000) > | > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > Booting [kernel]... > /kernel text=0x1d56fe data=0x2f4ca0+0x1a718 zf_read: fill error Hello, I had the exact same error message trying to boot from a floppy where I had tried to dd the full boot.flp (2,8 Megs is just too much for a normal floppy), instead of kern.flp (and dd does not give error messages ..) TfH > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > can't load 'kernel' > no bootable kernel > \ > > Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. > ok > > What does this mean? If this is a -questions question, then please feel > free to flame me privately (just thought it sounded -currentish). If > there are any useful diags I can type, let me know. > > Hardware is 350MHz K6/2, generic-looking Asus motherboard with > integrated video and audio, no-name PCI 10baseT ethernet adapter, > floppy, single 20G IDE disk, 64M RAM. No other peripherals. > > Have tried different floppies. Recent OpenBSD snapshot floppy works > just fine, by way of crude hardware sanity check. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN /"\ mailto:herbelot@cybercable.fr AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS \ / http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot PAS DE HTML DANS X Hiroshima 45, Tchernobyl 86, Windows 95... LES COURRIELS / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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