From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 13: 0:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tucows.com (mail.tucows.com [208.229.216.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B0114C24 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:00:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arthur@tucows.com) Received: from Arthur.Linuxberg (starwars.linuxberg.org [208.229.216.41]) by mail.tucows.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA04221; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:58:30 -0400 Received: from localhost (arthur@localhost) by Arthur.Linuxberg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02429; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:58:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Arthur.Linuxberg: arthur owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:58:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Arthur H. Johnson II" X-Sender: arthur@Arthur.Linuxberg To: Langa Kentane Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Installation woes... about to get fired for incompetence! In-Reply-To: <000201beea77$457fbe00$0a01a8c0@sunshine.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The boot floppies are kernel.flp and mfsroot.flp. boot.flp is a rescue disk executed after booting into the kernel and mfs. Arthur H. Johnson II http://www.linuxberg.com Linuxberg Manager arthur@tucows.com On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Langa Kentane wrote: > I have been trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.8 for the past 5 days and > everytime I get stuck trying to boot from the FreeBSD boot disk. > > I made the boot image from boot.flp and tried to boot the machine. What I > got was error: D:0x0 C:43 H:0 S:3. > > I have since replaced every bit of hardware on the system and even tried a > new machine with no change. I tried to use different floppies but still I > get the same message while trying to boot. The machine I am using is a > P200MMX with 128 meg ram and 2 hard drives (1 two gig drive and one 650 meg > drive). > > I have installed FreeBSD on the same machine before with no problems. Please > help me before my boss fires me for incompetence. > > Thanks in advace > > Langa Kentane > System Administrator > Sunshine Networks cc > Tel +27 82 928 1952 > > > > 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