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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Error: C:0 H:0 S:16 Date: 16 May 1996 12:23:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4nf6n8$22s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ndb0h$jo2@crl.crl.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E medrecjm@crl.com (John Mosser) wrote: > Tried to install as dual boot on 540M dos drive - ran into geometry problems, > so decided to allocate entire disk to freebsd. > > Used novice install - seemed like everything was going ok, but now when I > try to boot with boot.flp disk, I get "Error: C:0 H:0 S:16". Either your floppy is bad, or (since it just happens on sector 16), it is misconfigured in the CMOS. (CMOS claims it's a 3.5" drive, but it is actually 5.25".) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)