Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:29:15 -0500 From: David Petrou <dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: system resetting on boot after freebsd 4.2 install Message-ID: <20001207192915.B8084@partita.rem.cs.cmu.edu>
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hi everyone. i've searched the freebsd lists for the problem below but have come up empty-handed. i'm hoping someone out there might know what's happening. i have a dell dimension 300mhz p2 with 2 13 gig IDE disks, a diamond viper 770 agp graphics card, an intel etherexpress interface, and phoenix bios 4.0 release 6.0 revision a09 (this has the fix for using large disks). i've installed freebsd 4.2 with the boot floppies over ftp. everything went smoothly. the problem is on boot. i get the prompt saying "f1 for disk 0" or whatever. i hit f1. then right before it does that 10 second countdown where you "press enter to continue...", the system resets itself. it looks like a hard reset. and the cycle continues until i shut it off... about half a page of text scrolls by right before the reset, but the system resets itself so fast that i have no idea what it said. i also tried hitting lots of keys to slow it down, etc., to no avail. i'm mystified. i have freebsd 4.2 installed successfully on a different computer, so i did it right at least once. any ideas? thanks, david p.s.: please cc: me on reply since i'm not subscribed to this list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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