problem with "afd0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0"

[Lowell Gilbert]

yew chin <yutaka82 at yahoo.com> writes:

> yeah, i just install freebsd 4.8 and i have a floppy
> disk. So, is the floppy disk causing the problem?
> or is there any fix for this?

afd0 isn't a normal floppy disk.  If you have a typical
floppy disk, you should be able to just disable the afd0
device completely in the kernel configuration screen (or
leave it out of a rebuild kernel completely).