FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 18), Joe Schmoe said:
> 
> I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four
> (very) different computers today:
> 
> - dell inspiron laptop
> - toshiba libretto
> - some other toshiba laptop
> - Intel N440BX p3 server (with fxp0 and Intel onboard
> SCSI)
> 
> Every single time, I boot off kern.flp, move on to
> mfsroot.flp, and as sysinstall is booting, after most
> of the dmesg has passed by, it suddenly starts
> spitting out error messages at an extremely fast rate.
>  The error messages are always the same - I can't read
> it all because it flies by too fast, but there are
> only two lines that repeat continuously:
> 
> A line that starts with:  spec_getpages
> A line that starts with: vm_fault: pager
> One of the lines ends with: 0xc4866000 (can't tell which)
> One of the lines contains: md0: I/O read failure

My only guess is your mfsroot floppy might be bad.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com