Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 22:11:35 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: 100022.2467@compuserve.com (Thurnreiter Robert) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems while booting FreeBSD 2.0 from floppy disk Message-ID: <199512152111.WAA02300@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <951215132041_100022.2467_EHV107-1@CompuServe.COM> from "Thurnreiter,Robert" at Dec 15, 95 08:20:42 am
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As Thurnreiter,Robert wrote:
>
> Following the installation instruction to boot FreeBSD 2.0 from
> floppy disk, I encountered a serious problem.
> While booting I received the following error message in the last
> stage of the boot process:
>
> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (ST0 40<abnrml>
> ST1<no_um> ST20<cyl 0 hd 0 sec 17>)
<no_am>
...to be exact.
This is a very well known problem, and it has been fixed about four
weeks after 2.0R was out. It happens on some ``enhanced'' floppy
controllers.
I hope you realize that 2.0R is an ancient and somewhat unstable
release, and that there have been two newer `official' releases since
then (2.0.5R, and recently 2.1R, though the CDROMs for the latter
aren't available yet). I would strongly suggest upgrading.
I case you don't wanna upgrade now, just use a plain old silly
NE765-compatible floppy controller. They didn't suffer from that
problem.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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