Joe Abley wrote:
>
> Problem report booting 4.0-RELEASE follows.
>
> /boot.config: -P
> Keyboard: yes
>
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
> Console: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS drive A: is disk0
> BIOS drive C: is disk1
> BIOS 639kB/56256kB available memory
>
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Wed Mar 15 01:23:43 GMT 2000)
> |
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> Booting [kernel]...
> /kernel text=0x1d56fe data=0x2f4ca0+0x1a718 zf_read: fill error
Hello,
I had the exact same error message trying to boot from a floppy where I
had tried to dd the full boot.flp (2,8 Megs is just too much for a
normal floppy), instead of kern.flp (and dd does not give error messages
..)
TfH
>
> elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed
> can't load 'kernel'
> no bootable kernel
> \
>
> Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
> ok
>
> What does this mean? If this is a -questions question, then please feel
> free to flame me privately (just thought it sounded -currentish). If
> there are any useful diags I can type, let me know.
>
> Hardware is 350MHz K6/2, generic-looking Asus motherboard with
> integrated video and audio, no-name PCI 10baseT ethernet adapter,
> floppy, single 20G IDE disk, 64M RAM. No other peripherals.
>
> Have tried different floppies. Recent OpenBSD snapshot floppy works
> just fine, by way of crude hardware sanity check.
>
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