error 16

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 09:14 am, Ben Haysom wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an AMD Duron 700Mhz running FreeBSD 5.3.
>
> When power up I get
>
> error 16 lba 287
> error 16 lba 287
> No /boot/loader
>
> fdisk from the installation CD finds the harddrive as normal.
>
> A friend found the following for me
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-March/081879.html
>
> Seems to be the same, but the commands that person entered don't work for
> me..
>
> I couldn't find anything searching on the full error.
>
> Any ideas, or shall I just do a complete reinstall? The machine isn't
> vital so that is plausible.
>
> Ben Haysom.

This error means the BIOS is having problems talking to your disk.  According 
to Ralf Brown's Interrupt List 16 (0x10) means:

10h    uncorrectable CRC or ECC error on read

which means your drive is probably dying or dead.

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