Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:57:45 +0200 From: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernal floppy boot doesn't Message-ID: <4.2.0.56.19990611165527.00af62a0@go2france.com> In-Reply-To: <37610C7D.536ED874@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <4.2.0.56.19990611143807.00a69a20@go2france.com>
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Yes, 64 megs. I'm, happily, not pursuing this anymore since the cdrom drive turned out to be bootable after all. I think the diskette drive is sick, it's certainly old, rarely used, Paris air is filthy, and the drive just couldn't read the innermost tracks. Len =============== >Does your machine have more than 12 Megs ? (minimum for 3.x) > > TfH > >Len Conrad wrote: > > > > >Trying to build a dedicated ipfilter/ipnat machine between DMZ and private > > >network, using a Pentium 100 someting, retiring Win95. > > > > BIOS doesn't support cdrom boot, so created a fbsd 3.1-R boot diskette > > using the "dd if=/cdrom/etc" command from Lehey book, dd seems to complete > > successfully. > > > > But two different diskettes fail to boot with: > > > > zf_read: fill error > > elf_load exec: archsw.readin failed > > cant load kernel. > > > > and give a command prompt. > > > > Help, > > Len > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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