From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 20 06:27:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA04777 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:27:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (root@gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA04772 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:27:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by gallup.cia-g.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA23883; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:28:35 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:28:35 -0700 (MST) From: Stephen Fisher To: Russ Pagenkopf cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with new motherboard In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I had this problem with my new server, When it says boot: type -c and let it load the kernel off of the boot disk, then type "visual" and go through and disable everything you don't need.. and it should get by fine. Make sure you don't disable the system console driver though =) On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Russ Pagenkopf wrote: > Feedback please, I'm getting desperate. > ... > > The problem: > > Using either the boot.flp or the atapi.flp disk the install will go through > uncompressing the kernel, go to bold white with CPU:, start probing and > gets to (I think, the bloody thing goes too fast to keep up) probing the > ISA bus, resets and locks up (clears the screen and freezes, puts the > monitor in energy-saving mode, only a power off/on or reset will bring it > back). > > In desperation I've pulled the Buslogic Card, the 3Com, the CD-ROM, it's > down to just the floppy and no joy, same thing everytime. Am I screwed? > > TIA > rus > > ps. no conflicts that I can find, besides pulling stuff should eliminate > that, and yes it all works fine in DOS :-( > > > Russ Pagenkopf (russ@ism.net) > >