Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:39:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Beau Giles <beau@webmaster.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960712233825.829M@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19960711221956890.AAA221@vrml>
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On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Beau Giles wrote: > I'm booting up with the boot disk and the generic kernel recoginizes my > floppy, hard, and SCSI CD-ROM drives, then everything goes blank except for > a large white cursor in the lower left hand corner. Nothing happens next, > it just sits there. One of a few things: 1. It's going hunting for something, maybe CD media. Give it a bit. 2. You're being bit by the sio probe bug. Try disabling sio3 and 4 and try it. If that doesn't work, disable all of them, and see if that helps. 3. Bad boot floppy. Try a clean, error-free disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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