From owner-freebsd-small Thu Apr 1 14:49:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D3E1527A for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:49:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02905; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:49:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA21123; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:49:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199904012249.PAA21123@harmony.village.org> To: "Fischer, Roger" Subject: Re: PicoBSD boot error? Cc: "'freebsd-small@freebsd.org'" In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Apr 1999 17:45:53 EST." <2179AABD7346D111A51400805F85B816A6F2B1@LBHEXCH1> References: <2179AABD7346D111A51400805F85B816A6F2B1@LBHEXCH1> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 15:49:22 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <2179AABD7346D111A51400805F85B816A6F2B1@LBHEXCH1> "Fischer, Roger" writes: : Funny, I reformatted the floppy, and ran a disk check : on it and it still tested OK, but wouldn't work. I had a very similar problem recently. The only thing I different between the disk that worked and the one that didn't was to make the lable, then apply it to the disk (this worked) rather than writing directly on the lable that was there already with a soft pen (this failed). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message