From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 19 15:39:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-17-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CFDF11412 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:39:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id BAA14224; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:38:02 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199902192338.BAA14224@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: AGAIN 3.1-RELEASE and boot.flp In-Reply-To: from wildcardus freakis at "Feb 19, 99 04:01:04 pm" To: wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us (wildcardus freakis) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:37:59 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, veldy@visi.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wildcardus freakis wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > wildcardus freakis wrote: > > > > > I have two disks...one, kern.flp and two, mfsroot.flp... > > > I put kern.flp in the drive and booted to a point that says: > > > > > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > > > Default: 0:fd(0,a)/kernel > > > boot: > > > > > > Now...when I type /boot/loader > > > I get this error: > > > Disk Error 0x10 (lba=0x90) > > > Invalid Format > > > > > > I made each boot disk like I always have since FreeBSD 2.2.2 came out. > > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 > > > dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 > > Again a good call...how did you know what 0x10 ment? I wrote the code. :) It would be good to print more useful messages, but the boot blocks don't really have the space. > is there a place that you can look at what errors mean? Brown's "Interrupt List", or any programmer's reference to the PC BIOS, should have a list of these. The most common ones are: 0x01 Invalid parameter 0x02 Address mark not found 0x03 Write-protected disk 0x04 Sector not found 0x06 Diskette changed 0x08 DMA overrun 0x09 DMA across 64K boundary 0x0C Invalid media 0x10 Uncorrectable CRC error 0x20 Controller error 0x40 Seek failure 0x80 Drive not ready > > Thanks > Sasha > > > > > > Disk Error 0x10 means that your floppy drive controller encountered > > an uncorrectable CRC error (ie. part of the disk is unreadable). > > > > -- > > Robert Nordier > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message