From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 06:18:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA05784 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 06:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA05779 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 06:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id aa17734; 15 Jul 96 13:17 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id ac23086; 13 Jul 96 1:24 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA02535; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 22:28:07 GMT Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 22:28:07 GMT Message-Id: <199607122228.WAA02535@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: beau@webmaster.com CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <19960711221956890.AAA221@vrml> (beau@webmaster.com) Subject: Re: Install Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> beau@webmaster.com (Beau Giles) writes: > > 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. Hmm. According to my boot messages, it should probe the video card next. Can you tell us what video card you have? If it's an ATI Mach, there are known problems with probing this card - basically you have to enter -c at the boot prompt and disable sio3. If it's not, or the above didn't work, or didn't make any sense, please feel free to come back to us. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/