Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:16:45 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "'Dennis Jun'" <dennisjun@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <chat@gtabug.org> Subject: RE: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn Message-ID: <003401c07f83$e79f6440$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <001a01c07e85$ec793350$0300a8c0@wilma>
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This may be silly, but have you checked the BIOS to make sure it doesen't think your 1.4Mb floppy is a 1.2Mb? Also, try it with a bootable DOS floppy. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dennis Jun >Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 3:59 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; chat@gtabug.org >Subject: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn > > >Hello all! > >I was trying to install FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE yesterday but I got the >following error when I tried to boot up my kern.flp: > >Disk error 0x4 (lba=0x10) > >At first I thought I just had a bad floppy so I made another image on >another floppy but I had same error. Then I tried 4 other >floppies and I >still got the same problem. Plus I also tried these same floppies in a >Win2k box and they seemed alright. Then I thought it might have been my >actual floppy disk drive so I replaced that with one that I knew that >worked for sure. Same problem. Then I thought it could have >been the image >itself, so I made an image of a previous STABLE image but same problem. >Then I tried the 4.2-RELEASE image. Same thing. I'm stumped. > >Fortunately I had a previous install on this box. I tried to mount the >floppy drive and I got this error: > ><sunnie> ~# mount /dev/fd0a /mnt >mount: Input/output error > >and my /var/messages had this: > >Jan 14 18:43:02 sunnie /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn >18 of 16-31 >(ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1) > >Any ideas? > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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