From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 8 14:53:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA17131 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA17108 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:53:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA01996; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:53:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jetsam cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hangups in 2.2.2 In-Reply-To: <343992a2.7158322@mail.axnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Jetsam wrote: > 200mmx award bios This is potentially worrysome. > 32meg mem > Adaptec 2940 PCI scsi card > Micropolis 3243 Hard drive > Chinon scsi 535 cdrom drive > Matrox Mil II video 4meg > Impact IQ ISDN T/A > 1.4 meg floppy What motherboard or mfr is this? > My problem is when I boot from the cdrom, it hangs up right after the > first portion where it displays the boot: prompt and after the > spinning " | " which indicates activity. > > So I made a boot floppy and did the kernal config and reduced the > conflicts to 0, then after I hit Q for save and quit, it locks up > there. Then I tried the DOS partition boot, and it locks in the same > place, right after the kernal config, using visual config option. Hm, that is at the CPU detection step. Are you **positive** you have an Intel chip in your machine and not a Cyrix or AMD? I don't think the Cyrix 200MX chips are known to 2.2.2. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major