From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 25 6:51:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from york.ac.uk (pump3.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8607814E3C for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 06:51:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abs4@york.ac.uk) Received: from davros.york.ac.uk (davros.york.ac.uk [144.32.134.16]) by york.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA20867 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:51:31 GMT Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:51:30 +0000 () From: abs4 Reply-To: abs4 To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting floppy kern.flp gives errors Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I have copied the two install floppies from the 4.0-current release but am getting errors during booting. The server sort of boots, but it looks like it is having trouble reading the floppy. The errors look like: "IDE command not successfully terminated" "IDE bad sector encountered or read unsuccessfull" Do I have a bad floppy drive, or is this release not supported on an Alpha server 800 (I read in an earlier mailing that is was). Many thank for any info, Andrew ------------ Dr Andrew Smith Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York. YO1 5DD Telephone: 01904-433809; FAX: 01904-433740 This message has the status of a private & personal communication To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message