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Subject: can't boot using the installation boot diskette made by RAWRITE
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>Number:         12102
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       can't boot using the installation boot diskette made by RAWRITE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun  9 12:20:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jun 18 20:46:17 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jun 18 20:47:25 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Jeongjun Seo
>Release:        3.1
>Organization:
Network Solutions
>Environment:
Intel Pentuium II 300 Mhz with 128 MB of memory
(I could not get tot he point where I can use "uname" command becasue this problem happened during the first booting for installation.)
>Description:
My PC runs NT 4.0. I completely shutdowned it and inserted a boot floppy to start installation. I turned on the PC with the floppy and I got the following error message during the initial load of the kernel start installation:

---- begin of error messages -----

/kernel text=0x18be72 data=0x2eb35c+0xldcc0 zf_read: fill error

elf_loadexec: archsw.readin.failed
Can't load 'kernel'

---- end of error messages -----

I made the boot floppy using the RAWRITE utility based on the instructions on 'The complete FreeBSD' from the 3.1 CD-ROM. The version o the loader is as follows:

FreeBSD i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.5 638/655 32kB

I would appreciate it if you would let me know how I could work around this failure.

Thank you!

>How-To-Repeat:
Insert the boot floppy made by RAWRITE utility on the 3.1 installtion CD-ROM and reboot the machine.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To: jseo@netsol.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/12102: can't boot using the installation boot diskette made by RAWRITE
Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:52:26 +0200

 jseo@netsol.com writes:
 > /kernel text=0x18be72 data=0x2eb35c+0xldcc0 zf_read: fill error
 > 
 > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin.failed
 > Can't load 'kernel'
 
 Sounds like a bad floppy. Did you try a different floppy?
 
 DES
 -- 
 Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 18 20:46:17 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
See also Jordan's response to PR #12223. 
>Unformatted:
