Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 02:25:48 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bummer... Trying to install WITHOUT DOS Message-ID: <7599.873969948@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:52:51 %2B0930. <19970911185251.10888@lemis.com>
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In message <19970911185251.10888@lemis.com>, you wrote: >On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 02:20:35AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> >> In message <19970911184639.57405@lemis.com>, you wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 01:33:09AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >>>> >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> I just got the FreeBSD 2.2.2 VCD ROM from Walnut Creek and made the >>>> requsite boot floppy from it, as directed. >>>> >>>> The boot floppy boots up to the Boot: brompt OK, but then after about >>>> 5 seconds it takes off running and just generates a long stream of >>>> repeating device errors of some sort. >>> >>> Of what sort? At this point you should be getting a twirling baton. >> >> The baton just barely starts to twirl, and then I get an endless >> stream of message that all say: >> >> Error: D:0x0 C:0 H:1 S:0 >> >> repeating over and over again. > >That's what I thought. > >> I have no idea what these mean. Please enlighten me. > >Error. Disk 0, cylinder 0, head 1, sector 0. > >>> Report the error message. If it's telling you that it can't your >>> floppy, throw it away and start again. >> >> Is that what the above message means?? That I just have a bad floppy?? > >Yup. It happens so often that I wonder if we don't have a bug in the >floppy driver. The message could be made a bit more informative/enlightening. >But it *does* go away with a new floppy. In case of >doubt, format it first. I formatted that last one first! Oh well. Dysans suck. I'll try a Sony this time. Thanks for your prompt help. -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) demo: http://monkeys.com/cgi-bin/wpoison
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