From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 6 0:24: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles516.castles.com [208.214.165.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971E6155D5 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:23:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01025; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001060829.AAA01025@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Harold Gutch Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2000 19:19:20 +0100." <20000105191920.D11588@foobar.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:29:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On a (semi-)related topic - I tried to install FreeBSD > 3.3-RELEASE on my "Gericom" notebook last week and _always_ > failed when booting from either the CD or from the 3.3 bootdisks > I had created. > The booting process would halt at either the point where it says > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > > or it would pass exactly this point and then halt at the next > screen (the one where you select wether you want to config your > kernel in visual mode etc.). At one of these points it would > simply freeze, no panic, no dump, nothing. More details (eg. the output when you use 'boot -v' on the install floppies) would be helpful. > The only thing "special" about the notebook I can think of right > now, is the DVD-ROM, but disabling in the BIOS didn't help > either. I wouldn't expect that to be a problem. > Is *something* from what I posted here known, or is this perhaps > a known problem? The notebook now runs without problems, so I > can get additional debug output etc. if wanted. It'd be interesting to know if you have the same problem with the boot floppies for a recent 4.0 snapshot. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message