Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:05:40 -0500 From: Ben Salem <bfs@kscable.com> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Halted Message-ID: <37BC9BD3.14D05AFF@kscable.com> References: <37BC6118.56EBD3DF@kscable.com> <37BC67A0.FA9DF172@ispro.net.tr> <37BC71DB.4665E61F@kscable.com> <37BC7C5C.7CAF81B6@ispro.net.tr>
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I would, but it doesn't even get that far, before the boot prompt, it gives all of those weird memory addresses, then "System Halted" Evren Yurtesen wrote: > what happens if you press a key at the boot prompt when it is waiting > for 10 seconds for continuing and try to load the generic kernel from > there? (or you do not get that prompt at all? if not you probably have > a problem with the loader program I guess. I am not an expert on this > though) > you should give the command > load kernel.GENERIC > it would probably work... > > Evren > > Ben Salem wrote: > > > > Yes, I have tried pulling it out, and setting the settings back to the > > original. > > > > When the NIC card is out, it does the same thing. > > > > Im wondering, has anyone every used the "Fix It" option in the sysintsall menu > > before? What exactly does that do? > > > > Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > > > did you try to set those NIC card settings back to how they were? > > > or even tried to take it out? > > > > > > Ben Salem wrote: > > > > > > > > Recently, when my system was working just fine, no problems at all - I > > > > even had a 30 day uptime, I had to reboot my system to adjust some NIC > > > > card settings with a DOS diskette I have. So I did that ( I don't know > > > > if this had any effect on what my problem is or not) then I rebooted, > > > > and at the time FreeBSD should be giving me a boot prompt "-" it spits > > > > out alot of what seem to be memory addresss, quite a few in rows, then > > > > under all of that says "System Halted" and that's it. > > > > > > > > I've never seen this before, maybe someone could assist me in > > > > troubleshooting this problem. I run 3.2-RELEASE on a 486 DX/2 with 12mb > > > > RAM. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ben Salem > > > > bfs@kscable.com > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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