From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 11:09:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA00360 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:09:01 -0800 Received: from gaudi.diatel.upm.es (gaudi.diatel.upm.es [138.100.49.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00352 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:08:57 -0800 Received: by gaudi.diatel.upm.es (4.1/SMI-4.1) Thu, 2 Mar 95 18:10:23 +0100 X400-Received: by mta diatel.upm in /PRMD=/ADMD=/C=/; Relayed; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 18:10:19 UTC+0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/; Relayed; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 18:10:19 UTC+0100 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 18:10:19 UTC+0100 X400-Originator: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-Content-Type: P2-1984 (2) X400-Mts-Identifier: [/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/;950302181019] Content-Identifier: 626 Conversion: Prohibited From: Javier Martin Rueda To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: <626*/S=jmrueda/OU=diatel/O=upm/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/@MHS> Subject: System hangs when changing root device Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Ean X.400 to MIME gateway) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've received a new computer where I was planning to install FreeBSD. The hardware configuration is as follows: Intel 486DX2-66S PCI+VESA mainboard with UMC chipset and Award 4.50G, rev B BIOS 16 Mb Buslogic 946c Conner CFP1060S SCSI hard disk (1.05 Gb) SMC EtherPower 8432 SBC 550 serial port card (2 serial ports with 16550A UART) 3.5" FDD I created a boot disk with rawrite (using the "newer" bootdisk from FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE) and everything was probed OK, but after the message "changing root device to fd0c" appeared, the computer freezed. At that stage, the system was supposed to welcome me and display the fancy installation menu and all that, but that didn't happen. It just hung with no more messages, no beeps, no disk activity, nothing. I have tried with a boot disk from FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 with similar results. The hardware devices were probed OK (except for the SMC EtherPower, which wasn't listed), and after saying "changing root device to fd0d", the computer freezed again. Does anyone have any idea of what can be wrong? Do you know of any incompatibilities among the hardware components, or among FreeBSD and that hardware? I'm going to try with a new motherboard with Opti chipset, but I don't know if that will work fine. In the meantime, any help would be appretiated.