Re: 5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems
Mike Smith writes: > > > > /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. > > Only if you've been silly enough to only put *half* of boot.flp on a > disk. If it's all there, it works just fine. 8) Doesn't matter how silly it is -- I can guarantee you that at least one person has done it :-) -Archie ___ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems
> 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. Only if you've been silly enough to only put *half* of boot.flp on a disk. If it's all there, it works just fine. 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems
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 -- Mike Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems
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. -Archie ___ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: 5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems
Mike Pritchard wrote: > I just had a problem trying to install the latest -current > snapshot from the 8/26 snap. Background: > > Windows trashed my hard disk on one of my machines, so I had > to do clean install. Since I run -current on that machine > anyways, I decided to try the latest snapshot to restore it. > > Booting kern.flp (i386) gives me (pardon any typos, I'm looking at > one screen and typing on the other): > > 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. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
