From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 9:39:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.BSDI.COM (services.BSDI.COM [207.174.116.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882A537B4CF for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:39:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from spindle (spindle-ppp.DISKDRIVE.COM [207.174.116.41]) by services.BSDI.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29021 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:39:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20001124103206.00a30100@relay.bsdi.com> X-Sender: reames@relay.bsdi.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:39:57 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Steve Reames Subject: Sysinstall crash on install Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings all, I'm installing FreeBSD 4.1 on a 120 MHz Pentium. I'm following the instructions in the Lehey book. Both floppies load OK, system get to point where I get about two screens of "ppd0: blah blah blah, fd0: blah blah blah". When sysinstall programs starts, I see the color screen for about 0.1 seconds. The screen goes blank for 5 seconds and restarts again with the click-click-click of the memory test (cold boot). All I can figure is a jump to the cold boot vector, or an unexpected non-maskable interrupt. Has anyone seen this problem? I don't need an exact solution, but if someone could send me in the right direction I would appreciate it. (Note: I'm well versed with hardware and Windows, a novice with FreeBSD.) Thanks, Steve Reames reames@diskdrive.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message