Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:15:37 -0700 From: Michael Maibaum <mike@maibaum.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installation problem-possible problem with mach64 card? Message-ID: <200105231621.JAA06693@cpmc.org>
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I am trying to set up a home server using a old PC and the install process is failling before I get to the install screen. I made the boot floppies kern.flp and mfsroot.flp and I can boot up to the kernal config choice, I choose visual, and tried to configure the kernel.... when I quit the config program it dumps me back to a console which scrolls about 2/3 of a screen starting at avail memory (around 73000K), it then goes through what I presume is the process of identifying the hardware that is present, it IDs the PCI and ISA bus, ata0 and ata1 then I get the line pci0: <ATI Mach64-CT graphics accelerator> at 4.0 irq 9 and then it sits there and does nothing but let the fan hum gently.... It doesn't seem to matter what I put in the kernel config screen, I can disable almost everything and still see this, I can leave everything in and see this. and many configs in between. I burnt a CD-Rom from the iso image on the ftp site, however the machine doesn't seem to want to boot from that either, the bios has a setting that will allow/disallow CD-ROM booting but even with the CD_ROM booting enabled it doesn't seem to boot from the CD. the machine is an acer P120 with 80Mb RAM, it has two nics, a modem (although I don't care about that-I could remove it if that would help). A 1gig IDE HD, and CD ROM. If the exact nic chipsets are relevant let me know and I'll figure it out. thanks for any help Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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