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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:43:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      jay <jay@musubi.org>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: fail to install 4.4 on omnibook 500
Message-ID:  <20011123143420.K60206-100000@spam.musubi.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011123233211.A187@gvr.gvr.org>

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i have an omnibook 500 and that happened to me as well.
i dimly remember booting from the 4.3 install disks and in the
install options specifying 4.4 as the release to install.

=jay

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Guido van Rooij wrote:

> I got an omnibook 500 today but it completely fails to install FreeBSD.
> I have it with a floppy drive. Booting from kern and mfsroot goes fine,
> but just after probing ad0, the system kind of hangs.
> I disabled all unnecessaryy devices and upgraded the BIOS.
>
> With 'kind of hangs' I mean that ctrl-alt-del does not work, and
> also scroll lock will not work (though the scrolllock led is turned on).
> Ctrl-alt-esc gives the No debugger in kernel message and that is about it.
>
> Does anyone recogize this? Anyone has other options?
>
> (I do not have a cd or dvd drive with it).
>
> -Guido
>
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