Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:44:52 +0900 (JST) From: Ito Kazumitsu <kaz@maczuka.gcd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble booting 5.4 installation media (repost) Message-ID: <20050715.064451.193677361.kaz@maczuka.gcd.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, On Fri May 27 02:27:35 PDT 2005, dave dmehler26 at woh.rr.com wrote: > Didn't get a response so i'm going to try this again. I'm trying to do a > fresh install of 5.4 on a test machine, which previously ran 5.3 just fine. > I'm doing the install via a serial terminal as this box is headless and off > of an nfs server which i've also prepared identically to 5.3. I have made > the three floppies, boot.flp and the two kern*.flp disks, then mounted > boot.flp and created a boot.config file on it with "-h" so i get output on > serial port1. All this works fine, i am prompted to switch disks to the two > kern* disks, again no problems. When i put in boot.flp after being prompted > after kern2.flp i get a repeating error, which is below from sysinstall and > the process goes no further. At first i thought it was a problem with the > downloaded iso image, so i checked the md5 signatures, they matched, then i > rewrote the floppy in question, on 4 different disks with the same result. > > Insert boot floppy and press Enter > /acpi.ko text=0x414fc data=0x1dc4+0x112c syms=[0x4+0x7670+0x4+0x9d05] > zf_read: fill error > > spec_getpages:(md0) I/O read failure: (error=5) bp 0xc94fb9ec vp 0xc1d42d68 > size: 36864, resid: 36864, a_count: 36864, valid: 0x0 > nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 459, pcount: 9 > vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1 (sysinstall) I experienced the same problem while trying to install 5.4-RELEASE. I also made many sets of floppy disks and got the same result. I thought there must be some problem in 5.4-RELEASE, but Google search for "zf_read fill error" made me convinced that the problem existed in my floppy disks, and not in 5.4-RELEASE. So I made boot.flp and kern*.flp on another machine. Then the installation went without problem!
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050715.064451.193677361.kaz>