i386/65137: 5.2.1 Intall Boot from floppies page fault in mfsroot giving up after 84 buffers in synching disks

[Christopher J. Noyes]

>Number:         65137
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       5.2.1 Intall Boot from floppies page fault in mfsroot giving up after 84 buffers in synching disks
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 03 11:00:42 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christopher J. Noyes
>Release:        5.2.1
>Organization:
Christopher J. Noyes Software
>Environment:
i386, Pentium II 400mhZ, 128 megs memory, asian clone motherboard with award bios intel chipsets. 2 Maxtor Ide Hard drives 40GB and 60GB, 1.44 floppy, 1 mitsumi ide cd-rom, Adaptec 78xx pci scsi card, connor tape drive, yamaha 16 x scsi cdrom reader/writer. NVidia GeoforceII MX400 64MB video card, Soundblaster PNP 16 sound card. Windows ME fat32 adn Linux on other partitions.  
>Description:
I ftp downloaded the 5.2.1 iso images, and made a cd from them using easy cd creator. As per the instructions, I did fdimage kern.flp a: and fdimage mfsroot.flp a: on formatted disks. I put the kern disk in the machine and rebooted it loaded ok. It asked for the second disk and it started loading, then I saw the following page fault synching disks 220 220 220 220 220 220... then giving up on 84 buffers, then it said 5 seconds to reboot.

On 2 partitions I have Free BSD 4.0 which boots fine on this machine. I would like to upgrade. I tried the prior release and had the same bug.    
>How-To-Repeat:
reboot from floppies.
>Fix:
none
>Release-Note:
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