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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: First time booting FreeBSD with boot floppy HELP Date: 9 Jul 1996 21:10:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ruhrq$5ho@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31E18880.4906@ccsi.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 Redgie Joy <redmike@ccsi.com> wrote: > Yes I have formatted several disks with several different computers and > wrote the floppy with binary downloaded stuff. Just to start when I boot > up to install it it gives me the normal boot prompt the goes to probe and > says: > ERROR C:0 H:0 S:0 This means it could not read the first sector off your floppy. This is funny, since the first 15 sectors have already been read (it's the bootstrap itself), and it's not supposed to look for the root directory or the kernel at this location. So something is fundamentally broken with either this floppy, your floppy drive, or your BIOS setup. Make sure the floppy can be read ok on another machine, and make sure that the data about the floppy drive in the BIOS are okay. -- 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. ;-)