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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!weld.news.pipex.net!pipex!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!van.ist ar!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news.lava.net!coconut!usenet From: test@aloha.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI on Pentium Pro Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 01:36:58 GMT Organization: Coconut Wireless Lines: 25 Message-ID: <31c75938.300574062@news.aloha.com> References: <4pv75l$pql@gaia.ns.utk.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup150.aloha.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 On 15 Jun 1996 20:41:25 GMT, lekes@panacea.phys.utk.edu (Stavros Siopsis) wrote: >Subject: BSDI on Pentium Pro >Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc >Organization: Particle Theory Group, Physics Department, UTK >Summary: >Keywords: > > >I just bought a new pentium pro 200 computer and I tried to install BSDI. >I tried to boot from the install disk and it gives me this error: > >Read error on block 16 of unit 0 >Error 4: sector was not found. Retrying... Just a thought but could it be the device driver for the floppy drive? The new MB has a new IO set and if I'm not mistaken it's hooked through the PCI bus. If so, then um, all the Berkeley Unixes have to have a new boot driver made... -- Ima Checking