From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 11:33:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f172.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 090C737B973 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:33:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 69695 invoked by uid 0); 23 Feb 2000 19:33:43 -0000 Message-ID: <20000223193343.69694.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:33:43 PST X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problem with install bootup Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:33:43 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I boot from the kern floppy my system hangs after the following is printed to the screen: =============================================== /boot.config: -P Keyboard: no - BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 =============================================== My system is an Acer Aspire PIII 450, 128MB RAM, 8GB HD with the following hardware: Human Interface Devices (HID) USB mouse and keyboard (*NOTE* only USB keyboard - no PS/2 or AT-style ports) Intel 82443BX Pentium II Processor to PCI bridge Intel 82443BX Pentium II Process to AGP Controller Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller Intel 82371EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA mode) Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller Intel 82371AB/EB Power Management Controller (the Intel 82371AB/EB architecture is specifically supported according to the harward notes at freeBSD.org) ATI XPERT 98 Display adapter Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 70 Monitor ESS Solo-1 Soundblaster sound card Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) BIOS Acer 56K DataFax PCI Modem 3com FastEtherlink XL 10/100MB TX Ethernet NIC (3C905B-TX) Hitachi DVD-ROM GD-2500 Generic IDE Harddisk and Floppy disk First: It's my understanding that USB is supported so I don't understand why I get the message "Keyboard: no." Second: Everything seems to go well for 2-3 minutes: the drive is humming, I get messages on the screen, etc but then the baton stops turning, the floopy stops (I guess it has finished reading) and nothing happens. Can anyone explain this? NOTE I have the second floppy disk: mfsroot and I have tried putting it into the drive after a couple of minutes of inactivity (despite not being prompted to do so) but nothing happens (even after hitting return a few times). What is the correct behavior? Shouldn't there be a prompt for the second disk? I am very excited about getting freeBSD. I read a lot about installation and freeBSD before I started the install process, but I never thought I would have problems this early in the install process. I have used VAX/VMS and Win95/98/NT for many years. I was going to try RedHat but Linux doesn't support USB. This seems to have been a lucky coincidence since it appears that freeBSD is *much* better (more stable, more centralized, coherent development, astoundingly easy to use/upgrade especially with PORTS system, and a license that appears to be better for developers). FreeBSD appears to be the best kept secret in "free" operating systems! John jmd526@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message