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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot error
Date: 18 Jan 1994 06:03:49 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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In article <AMT.94Jan14094800@oberon.tmn.sda.cbis.com>,
Allen M Theobald <amt@oberon.tmn.sda.cbis.com> wrote:
>
>I have release 1.0 of FreeBSD.  When I boot with kc-altwd-boot all I
>get is:
>
>read error
>
>
>Then it hangs.  Any ideas?  My setup:  Compudyne 33 Mhz 386DX2, 170MB
>HD, 20 meg ram, and VGA graphics.


You've got a floppy with bad spots on it.  Format another floppy and
make sure it has not bad spots on it and then write the disk image
onto it.


Nate
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