Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:31:27 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: splice@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu (Splice) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM PS/1 Installation Help Message-ID: <199603270201.MAA07471@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960326165933.640A-100000@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu> from "Splice" at Mar 26, 96 05:04:27 pm
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Splice stands accused of saying: > It freezes after a few lines of init stuff and a few seconds and > repeatedly outputs this line indefinitely: > > Error: C:64 H:0 S:4 You need to use a _freshly_formatted_ floppy with _no_ bad sectors. This message means that sector 4 on track 64 is unreadable. (A more verbose message would reduce the already minimal space in the boot code) > Now I know I had a problem getting Linux to work on my system because for > some reason, IBM doesn't store any hard drive geometry in bios, but I got This may make trouble for you later, but if your disk reports the same geometry as the BIOS uses, or you can determine the BIOS geometry, you'll be fine. > - Patrick -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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