From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 5:35: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FD815AF6 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 05:33:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA13761; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:33:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:33:01 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001101333.OAA13761@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.3R/3.4R: can't make it to sysinstall from boot floppies for system install ... X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <85bjc8$2t3m$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roger P. Johnson wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rsd0 > dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/rsd0 I guess that's a typo... should be /dev/rfd0. > kernel text= zf_read: fill error > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > can't load module '/kernel': input/output error You floppies clearly have I/O errors on them. You could try to reformat them, or even better, use new ones. When you use FreeBSD to create the floppies, use this command instead of dd: fdwrite < kern.flp fdwrite < mfsroot.flp It will format, write and verify the floppies at the same time, thus avoiding the problem of badly preformatted floppies. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message