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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:16:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        Jason Lewicki <jtodd@triax.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980317121531.994U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980317051849.27442@welearn.com.au>

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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Sue Blake wrote:

> > > Got any other hints? I'm having the same problem as Jason, using a 386 which
> > > used to run FreeBSD (same version, 2.2.2) but has since had its SCSI
> > > controller and FreeBSD disk and second I/O card removed, leaving the DOS
> > > IDE. No other hardware has been changed, and I've tried disabling everything
> > > nonessential in UserConfig (eventually all of Network and Communications) in
> > > case there was unseen problems. No change. The same installation diskette
> > > has been used successfully on another machine.
> > 
> > Hit ALT-F2 and report what you see; it may indicate what device it's
> > having trouble looking for.
> 
> DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success)

Looking at this on my laptop, right after this is the network device
probe, then the disk probes (wdc).  If you removed everything from netowrk
and communications, then the ide controller is sticking.  What's on your
IDE and SCSI controllers?  Are you sure you set up the SCSI controller
correctly?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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