From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 18:13:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA06442 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU [128.250.6.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA06432 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from s_koyin@localhost) by eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (8.7.4/8.7.3) id LAA30869; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:13:36 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:13:36 +1000 (EST) From: HMG coA reductase To: Byron Rakitzis cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble installing freebsd 2.1 on toshiba laptop In-Reply-To: <9607181734.AA15447@bayonne.netapp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I started the kernel with -c, disabled everything except the IDE bus, > serial controllers, and the zp0 driver. However, the boot still did not > find the 3c589. For laughs, I tried again disabling zp0 and enabling > ze0, since it seems to find something (although I don't know what!) > with ze0. Still nothing. > > Any hints are appreciated, esp. if there is a boot flag I can pass so > that the install utility does not start straight off so that I can at > least see what is eating the zp driver. you can press Scroll-Lock once the colorful screen appears, then use Page-Up and Page-Down to scroll around. Press Scroll-Lock again to deactivate scrollback mode. ivan