From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 06:33:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4318316A4B3 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A5143F3F for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 524133B04; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:33:55 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030919153424.34345.qmail@web11201.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <20030919153424.34345.qmail@web11201.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <44d6csjanw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: yew chin Subject: Re: problem with "afd0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:33:56 -0000 X-Original-Date: 20 Oct 2003 09:33:55 -0400 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:33:56 -0000 yew chin writes: > yeah, i just install freebsd 4.8 and i have a floppy > disk. So, is the floppy disk causing the problem? > or is there any fix for this? afd0 isn't a normal floppy disk. If you have a typical floppy disk, you should be able to just disable the afd0 device completely in the kernel configuration screen (or leave it out of a rebuild kernel completely).