Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:50:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Notebook install hangs with blank screen Message-ID: <199710212250.RAA15677@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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I wrote: > Trying to install any of the recent 2.2.5-BETAs and 3.0-SNAPS > on my notebook does not work. Everything seems to be fine, > all the devices are probed successfully, but at the point > when the main installation menu should come up, the display > blanks. I can hear the disk chirping for a second or two, > as if everything else is fine. I can even switch to the > emergency holographic shell (Alt-F2) to see messages. > > I've tried disabling everything that I don't need, including > all the serial and parallel ports. Still no luck. To summarize what I found, it was the CD-ROM drive that was hanging the system and not the display. After tip'ing in from another system and using the serial console option in the boot floppy, I was able to see where it was hanging. The CD-ROM was initially probed successfully, so I never tried disabling it. But after I disabled it, I got the installation menus :-) Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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