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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news.aloha.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!terbium.telogy.com!user From: cbreece@telogy.com (Cris Breece) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Follow-up: Re: v2.1 boot floppy problem. Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 08:29:38 -0500 Organization: Telogy Networks, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <cbreece-0901970829380001@terbium.telogy.com> References: <cbreece-0901970632010001@terbium.telogy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jedi.telogy.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5134 >From: Carl S Shapiro <cshapiro@sparky.ic.sunysb.edu> >Subject: Re: v2.1 boot floppy problem. >X-Attachments: >>In article <cbreece-0901970632010001@terbium.telogy.com> you wrote: >>: When booting the Adaptec install floppy for NetBSD v1.2, I get the : >> following inf. on the screen. >>: <normal first line> >>: "use fd(1,a)/netbsd when sd0 and wd0 are installed" : "Boot:" <stuff> ":-" >>: "Error: C:0 S:0 H:18" >>: With the last line repeating. Anyone know what, or has seen, this problem? >>[...] >Sounds like a bad disk. Try using a *brand new* floppy disk and rewriting >the disk image again... should do the trick. >Carl Sorry about not including this, it seemed like a trivial thing to put in. I've tried 10 different floppies, all of which pass an exhaustive surface scan. Two of which I used to test the Linux boot & root floppies which worked.