Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:31:40 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 - RELEASE/STABLE and Asus PI-P55T2P4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.10006072230090.18170-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <20000607204824.M9883@speedy.gsinet>
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Try making floppies and booting off of those. You can find "rawrite" for DOS in the tools directory, and the kernel and mfs floppy in the floppies directory... I'm willing to bet it will boot fine off the floppy. Charles On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 23:47 -0400, spork wrote: > > > > Just a quick note for the archives. If you have problems > > installing 4.x from a bootable CD on a SCSI CDROM, make sure > > you have the latest Asus BIOS. I didn't, and it locked the > > machine up hard (no Ctrl-Alt-Del). This is with a Toshiba > > CDROM and Mylex/Buslogic BT-948. I also flashed that to the > > latest rev for the fun of it. > > I don't have the exact same hardware nor do I even have something > similar. The machine looks something like this (sorry, don't > have it at hand here, but could collect more concret data on > request): > > - Athlon/700 (with 256MB of RAM) > - MSI (MicroStar) board with IronGate (751/756) chipset > - BIOS as of 2000/04/24 (latest available version) > - ATAPI cdrom and IDE harddrives > > and it completely freezes booting the 4.0-RELEASE CD (the German > user group's assembly as sold by JFLehmanns, www.lob.de). The > "keyboard: yes" is seen, the rotating dash starts showing, but > then the machine locks up hard and can only be power cycled or > pushed via the reset button. This seems to be the stage where > disks are scanned and enumerated for the loader. > > I won't be able to provide dmesg output (won't boot) nor did I > have the time to investigate the problem any further -- I got the > machine two days ago and installing FreeBSD on it was "just an > option" after everything else was done. > > I could collect the data from eyeballing(sp? id?) the hardware > and maybe booting Linux -- *if* this will do, neither did I try > this up to now. > > > virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 > Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net > -- > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above > ask your parents or an adult to help you. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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