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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:13:22 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trying to install 4.0-STABLE on laptop
Message-ID:  <38F80882.9CAB49B0@3-cities.com>
References:  <20000414232518.A61970@sr.se> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004141728360.77991-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> <20000415080626.A74649@sr.se>

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Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:32:21PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> >
> > > Is there anyone else getting the same problems as I?
> > >
> > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7
> > > (root@usw3.freebsd.org, Fri Apr 14 10:03:22 GMT 2000)
> > > /kernel text=0x1d7e3e zf_read: fill error
> > >
> > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed
> > > can't load module ´/kernel´: input/output error
> > >
> >
> > Either you have a bad floppy, your floppy drive is bad (my drive won't
> > read to the end of the disk, giving similiar errors), or you are trying to
> 
> No, I should have told you. It works if I run it on my stationary PII
> 266 Siemens,

Have you got a Toshiba with the bad floppy controller in it. That
floppy drive may just be aligned different enough that it won't read
it. You might format the floppies using it and then fdimage the files
to the disks.

> 
> > boot boot.flp instead of kern.flp/mfsroot.flp (not likely since you say
> > you are booting kern.flp).
> 
> I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.2. I'm not booting from boot.flp.

:)

Kent

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