Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:14:52 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: wayward@telefusion.com Cc: kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error 14 during install from boot floppy Message-ID: <199807071214.IAA17397@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980707012840.23967A-100000@gumby.telefusion.com> from "wayward@telefusion.com" at "Jul 7, 98 01:31:07 am"
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wayward@telefusion.com wrote: > 8MB RAM installed. When the computer is turned on and the BIOS checks the > memory it reads as '7808KB OK'. > > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 wayward@telefusion.com wrote: > > > > => I'm running a 386DX33 with a 1.2GB hard disk. I'm trying to do an FTP > > => installation using boot.flp. I've tried three different floppies, at > > => least one of which had worked on a previous installation on a Pentium, > > => formatted on three different machines and one of them was the Pentium with > > => FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE. Every time I boot the system from the floppy it > > => goes to the kernel configuration just fine. And when I save the settings > > => and exit it finds all the devices specified. But then it can't find init. > > => I keep getting 'error 14' for every directory in the path. Then it says > > => 'init not found', 'panic: init not found' and proceeds to automatically > > => reboot and start the process all over again. > > => > > => Obviously I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what. Any clues? > > => Any recommendations? These are random ideas, also called /guesses/: You have enough mem. (Did such an install just last month). Floppy drives and floppy drive controllers fail. I have seen combinations that worked under DOS, worked under Linux and 'BSD, stopped working under Unix, /but still worked for DOS/. Hardware replacement cured the problem. There is a floppy/IDE controller, called the GSI-32 which is a real source of bad floppy controlling. The second one has now shown this failure mode: I can boot DOS / linux/ *BSD from floppy, but no Unix sees the floppy later. Try swapping in a different floppy drive and/or controller. Insure in the 386's bios that all fancy memory options (Shadowing, in particular), are disabled. Make the BIOS setup as vanilla as possible. Use a less aggressive bus speed, if possible. Try disabling cache memory if possible. Try /skipping/ the kernel config, unless you actually /have/ conflicting devices. Maybe you're configuring something away you need. -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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