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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
> > > >
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