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Date:      Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:25:15 +0200
From:      Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trying to install 4.0-STABLE on laptop
Message-ID:  <20000415082515.D74649@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <38F80882.9CAB49B0@3-cities.com>; from kstewart@3-cities.com on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:13:22PM -0700
References:  <20000414232518.A61970@sr.se> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004141728360.77991-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> <20000415080626.A74649@sr.se> <38F80882.9CAB49B0@3-cities.com>

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On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:13:22PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Might very well be. It IS a Tochiba floppy in the Siemens that produced
the floppy. Never had any problems before though. But I switched to a
new floppy and all things are GO. Thanks.

> 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.
> 

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