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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Error--Help
Date: 11 Aug 1995 10:41:36 +0200
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chandler howell <chandler@fiat.gslis.utexas.edu> wrote:
>I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM
>(Dated June, 1995), and having made the boot disks, when I attempt to boot
>from them, the boot program starts, but immediately begins to return the
>error:
>
> Error: C:0 H:0 S:18
>
>This is on a MicroChannel machine with an IBM SCSI controller. Is this
>error a result of the MCA bus, or is it an indicator of some other
>problem which can or cannot be remedied?
This tells that the boot loader is unable to load the sector on
cylinder 0 head 0 sector 18 of the floppy. This could be an MCA
problem, but i'd rather believe in a hardware problem with the
floppy/FDC/floppy BIOS.
Anyway, chances to install on an MCA machine ``out of the box'' are
zero.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)