Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:53:30 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Ivan Samuelson <bolski@netexp.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: help? Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on HP Vectra VL 6 Series 7 DT Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990423204745.2095M-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904231329110.7126-100000@phobos.samuelson.com>
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Ivan Samuelson wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Ivan Samuelson wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 onto an HP Vectra VL 6/266 Series 7 DT > > > PC. It's a PII-233 with 32 megs of memory, 4 gig IDE harddrive, a Cirrus Logic > > > 546X video card (AGP), Diamond Monster 3D card, SMC EtherEZ (8416) ethernet > > > card, Aztech 23230 Compatible PnP Audio card (came with machine), Matshita > > > CD-ROM CR-588 (IDE) and a Phoenix BIOS 6.0.0 > > > > > > I can boot the Kernel floppy with no problem. When I insert the MFS root floppy > > > and hit enter, I get the following dump: > > > > > > int=0000000e eir=00000004 efl=00030246 eip=000020da > > > eax=00002001 ebx=00000000 ecx=0000df07 edx=000003f5 > > > esi=0000a6fc edi=0000a6fc ebp=000003da esp=000003d0 > > > cs=ebfa ds=0040 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db7 > > > cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4 > > > ss:esp=00 f0 fd 20 ca 28 31 25-fc a6 00 00 fe 9d fc a6 > > > System Halted > > > > Could you format the disks again, or use different floppies and > > try again? Most really weird booth problems are caused by bad > > floppies. > > > > Then just use "fdimage.exe" to make the floppies again. (It seems > > that Linux's 'dd' doesn't make for good boot floppies.) > > > > If this doesn't help, then please post again we'd love to help. > > I've reformatted them again (three times) and they still don't work on the PII > VL. But, as I stated in my post, they work on other machines (not Vectra VLs), > so I know this is not the problem. > > I've downloaded the 2.2.8 release and it boots fine on the VL, so I'm pretty > sure it's a VL problem with FreeBSD... Hmmm, not a good thing, I'm cc'ing a -hackers where this might get more visibility. Can someone make something of this? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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