Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:27:31 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: saruman@interlog.com (Nick Popoff) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support Request Message-ID: <19971005132731.FV51336@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971004151911.802A-100000@shell1.interlog.com>; from Nick Popoff on Oct 4, 1997 15:27:50 -0400 References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971004151911.802A-100000@shell1.interlog.com>
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As Nick Popoff wrote: > Hi there. This most likely isn't a bug, but I'm assuming this is the > correct address for support issues, rather than 'questions@FreeBSD.org'. The latter is -- answer redirected. > A few seconds later, as it is showing the load in > progress (something about reading text) it begins to spam this on the > screen and doesn't stop (I let it go for 20 minutes): > > Error D:0x0 C:14 H:0 S:2 This is really a bad medium (or maybe bad floppy drive). It's a plain error indication from the floppy BIOS routines, that is, the BIOS from your mainboard, telling you that the floppy was bad at drive 0 (`A:'), cylinder 14, head 0, sector 2. Since the first 13 cylinders worth of data have been loaded without any problem, i think we can really exclude any other possible source of error here. (Well, the file is not laid out strictly sequentially on the medium, but you get the picture.) Make sure your floppy media is 100 % error free -- MS-DOS bad sector remapping doesn't work for the boot medium. Also, format your floppy before writing it (and i mean: forcibly format it, IMHO that's option /U in MS-DOS now). The usual MTBF i'm experiencing for floppy media defects is often less than 24 hours... -- 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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