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From: cbreece@telogy.com (Cris Breece)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Follow-up: Re: v2.1 boot floppy problem.
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 08:29:38 -0500
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>From: Carl S Shapiro <cshapiro@sparky.ic.sunysb.edu>
>Subject: Re: v2.1 boot floppy problem.
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>>In article <cbreece-0901970632010001@terbium.telogy.com> you wrote: 

>>: When booting the Adaptec install floppy for NetBSD v1.2, I get the :
>> following inf. on the screen.

>>: <normal first line>
>>: "use fd(1,a)/netbsd when sd0 and wd0 are installed" : "Boot:" <stuff> ":-"
>>: "Error: C:0 S:0 H:18"

>>: With the last line repeating. Anyone know what, or has seen, this problem? 

>>[...]

>Sounds like a bad disk. Try using a *brand new* floppy disk and rewriting 
>the disk image again... should do the trick. 


>Carl

Sorry about not including this, it seemed like a trivial thing to put in.
I've tried 10 different floppies, all of which pass an exhaustive surface
scan. Two of which I used to test the Linux boot & root floppies which
worked.