Bug 26185

Summary:	4.2-R kern.flp won't boot on PS/2
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	pgreer <pgreer>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.2-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description pgreer 2001-03-28 23:50:01 UTC

Trying install on IBM PS/2 9590-DLG. Booting from floppy yields this:

<console output>

disk error 0x4 (lba0x10)
disk error 0x4 (lba0x10)
No /boot/loader

How-To-Repeat: try to boot from kern.flp floppy

Comment 1 winter 2001-03-29 07:04:56 UTC

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 pgreer@1st.net wrote:
> Trying install on IBM PS/2 9590-DLG. Booting from floppy yields this:
> 
> <console output>
> 
> disk error 0x4 (lba0x10)
> disk error 0x4 (lba0x10)
> No /boot/loader

This is a problem with the 2.88M floppy drive.  I'm not quite sure what
the solution is other than to use a 1.44M drive or a 1.2M.

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Comment 2 Mike Heffner freebsd_committer

2001-06-30 05:26:59 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Submitter was told to try 1.44 floppy -- feedback timeout.