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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:20:05 -0400
From: "Seo, June" <JSeo@netsol.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: FW: i386/12102: can't boot using the installation boot diskette m
	ade by RAWRITE

>Number:         12223
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FW: i386/12102: can't boot using the installation boot diskette m
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 15 08:30:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jun 15 14:13:56 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Wed Oct 26 06:09:05 GMT 2005
>Originator:     
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>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From:	Seo, June 
 > Sent:	mm/15/99 11:05
 > To:	'Dag-Erling Smorgrav'
 > Subject:	RE: i386/12102: can't boot using the installation boot
 > diskette made by RAWRITE
 > 
 > Thank you very much for your response!!!
 > 
 > I tried with two brand new floppies and got the same error. I followed
 > instructions on "The Complete FreeBSD" by  Greg Lehey to make the boot
 > floppy from the CD-ROM as follows:
 > 
 > E:\> tools\rawrite floppies\boot.flp
 > 
 > I found different instructions to make a boot floppy in FreeBSD.org site.
 > I made two floppies following the instructions:
 > 
 > E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp A:
 > E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\mfsroot.flp A:
 > 
 > I was able to boot into the installation kernel using the two floppies. I
 > am new to FreeBSD. So I am not sure why two sources of information are
 > different and what they mean. Anyway, I am so glad that I can boot. 
 > 
 > Thank you again for your help!
 > June Seo
 > 
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From:	Dag-Erling Smorgrav [SMTP:des@flood.ping.uio.no]
 > Sent:	mm/13/99 10:52
 > 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
 > 
 > 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
 
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 15 14:13:56 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is not a bug.  User has failed to read floppies/README.TXT as directed and 
has also not actually looked at boot.flp to see that it's a 2.88MB floppy image 
which will have a *very* hard time fitting on a 1.44MB floppy, even using the most 
modern mental compression techniques. 
>Unformatted:
 	ade by RAWRITE
