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From: test@aloha.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI on Pentium Pro
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 01:36:58 GMT
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On 15 Jun 1996 20:41:25 GMT, lekes@panacea.phys.utk.edu (Stavros
Siopsis) wrote:

>Subject: BSDI on Pentium Pro
>Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
>Organization: Particle Theory Group, Physics Department, UTK
>Summary: 
>Keywords: 
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>I just bought a new pentium pro 200 computer and I tried to install BSDI. 
>I tried to boot from the install disk and it gives me this error:
>
>Read error on block 16 of unit 0
>Error 4: sector was not found. Retrying...

Just a thought but could it be the device driver for the floppy drive?
The new MB has a new IO set and if I'm not mistaken it's hooked
through the PCI bus.  If so, then um, all the Berkeley Unixes have to
have a new boot driver made...


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