On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:23:34AM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> John Baldwin writes:
> > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
> > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat Aug 26 11:14:35 GMT 2000)
> > > /kernel text=0x2432ca zf_read: fill error
> > >
> > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed
> >
> > Your floppy is bad. Try a different one.
>
> Not necessarily. This also happens if you try to boot boot.flp
> instead of kern.flp.
It turns out it was a bad floppy, which I didn't even think of because
I don't think I've had a bad floppy disk in years and years (plus
I had been up all night beating my head on the desk over the whole
mess).
Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm now typing this message from the
machine that I had to do the re-install on, so all is good.
-Mike
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