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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!phase2.worldnet.att.net!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!jdr From: jdr@magpage.com (Jim Rosemary) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot floppy problem Date: 3 Dec 1996 04:37:57 GMT Organization: The Magnetic Page [302] 651-WRLD Lines: 15 Message-ID: <580ar5$f33@tofu.alt.net> References: <5804t1$63s@tofu.alt.net> In article <5804t1$63s@tofu.alt.net>, Jim Rosemary <jdr@magpage.com> wrote: >I created a boot floppy using the following: > >dd if=/cdrom/floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b > >When uncompressing the kernel, I consistently get crc errors. >I suspected the floppy drive was bad and replaced it with another but the >problem persists. Any ideas? Solved my own problem - the hardware is junk. I had to reduce the CPU clock speed to 100 Mhz from 133 Mhz. Unfortunately I can't just reduce I/O speed with the BIOS. Now I get as far as "Welcome to FreeBSD" before the system hangs.