Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:55:47 -0700 From: Mikael Cederberg <mceder@airmail.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen totally messed up after reboot. Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971117205545.00695608@mail.airmail.net>
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At 04:58 PM 11/17/97 -0800, Doug White wrote: >> wanted to boot to DOS or to the second drive, it started booting up into >> freeBSD by loading the kernel of the right drive etc, but then my whole >> screen is filled with garbage signs or ascII junk in different colors and >> that's as far as I get. > >What's the details on the machine? Video card? Other hardware? > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Before I list that, just wanted to mention - it worked fine before on my old drive(nowthe dos partition).. The graphics card is a Cirrus Logic 5434 PCI. The computer is an Acer pentium motherboard. 16mb RAM. Primary IDE controller got a maxtor 514MB running windows95 as a master and a mitsumi 4x cdrom as a slave. The secondary IDE controller got a samsung 3.2GB set up as a master with FBSD installed. It is when i boot of the samsung that this problem is happening. It gets to where it asks from where it should boot the kernel.. it goes to the default ( 1:wd(1,a)kernel ) and then types out a line that says text=0x12a 006 and then another line that goes away to quick to see. The next thing - the whole screen is filled with ascii signs in different colors.. Now, another thing I want to mention.. My bios doesnt appear to be supporting the 3.2 gig samsung fully.. it finds it with all the sectors, but I had problems installing it as a dos partition before. A friend tried the same drive on another computer and it worked fine - so it appears that the drive is correct. But from what I heard, FreeBSD doesnt care about the BIOS.. Sincerely, Mikael Cederberg -- Say no to drugs, violence on tv and HTML code in emails!! [swedish.redneck@airmail.net] --
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