From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 8:17:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.samuelson.com (pm32-p199.netexp.net [205.182.69.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B48314C0C for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bolski@netexp.net) Received: (qmail 18517 invoked by uid 500); 27 Apr 1999 15:18:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Apr 1999 15:18:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:18:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Ivan Samuelson X-Sender: bolski@phobos.samuelson.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on HP Vectra VL 6 Series 7 DT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I've narrowed my problem down to my floppy. For some reason, if I switch floppies, any access to that floppy will cause the system to puke. What I did was I booted from the kern disk. Then, I didn't switch floppies and hit enter. It asked if I wanted to try booting or go to a command prompt. So, I went to the command prompt and did and ls on the kern floppy. No problem. It listed the contents. I then put the mfsroot disk in and tried to ls it. The system puked with the message in my previous post (see quoted msg below). I then rebooted and went back into the command prompt. I removed the kern floppy and put it back in. I tried to ls it and again, the system puked. For some reason, either FreeBSD is not detecting a new floppy in my drive when I remove it or else, my floppy is not relaying this info back to FreeBSD. I'd put another drive in except this is a computer at work and I don't have access to other drives. Any info on this problem??? Thanks! On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Ivan Samuelson wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 onto an HP Vectra VL 6/266 Series 7 DT > PC. It's a PII-233 with 32 megs of memory, 4 gig IDE harddrive, a Cirrus Logic > 546X video card (AGP), Diamond Monster 3D card, SMC EtherEZ (8416) ethernet > card, Aztech 23230 Compatible PnP Audio card (came with machine), Matshita > CD-ROM CR-588 (IDE) and a Phoenix BIOS 6.0.0 > > I can boot the Kernel floppy with no problem. When I insert the MFS root floppy > and hit enter, I get the following dump: > > int=0000000e eir=00000004 efl=00030246 eip=000020da > eax=00002001 ebx=00000000 ecx=0000df07 edx=000003f5 > esi=0000a6fc edi=0000a6fc ebp=000003da esp=000003d0 > cs=ebfa ds=0040 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db7 > cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4 > ss:esp=00 f0 fd 20 ca 28 31 25-fc a6 00 00 fe 9d fc a6 > System Halted > > I've scoured the FAQs, newsgrouops and the FreeBSD website and all other > Readmes I could get my hands on, but nothing seems to mention problems > with HP Vectra PCs. But then, who knows... > > I've ensured things such as PNP OS is turned off in my BIOS. I've even gone > so far as to turn off the cache to see if that was a problem. > > I've gone to another HP Vectra with a Pentium 120 in it and the MFS Root > floppy worked fine. > > I'm new to FreeBSD so I'm not entirely familiar with it. I've used Linux > since '92 but I also want to become familiar with FreeBSD as well. I've > installed Linux on the same machine with no problems, so I'm not sure > where the problem lies. > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Ivan Samuelson * > Staff Support Coordinator and * bolski@netexp.net > Information Systems Consultant * > Metro Information Services * http://www.netexp.net/~bolski > http://www.MetroIS.com * > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ivan Samuelson * Staff Support Coordinator and * bolski@netexp.net Information Systems Consultant * Metro Information Services * http://www.netexp.net/~bolski http://www.MetroIS.com * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message