Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:48:49 -0500 From: Ron McCy <mccyron@kc.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ronmccy@yahoo.com Subject: 4.x Installation failure - White Stripes on initial boot. Message-ID: <40F7F8E1.1060407@kc.rr.com>
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Computer: SpaceWalker-Pentium III.800mHz, 256MB, 20GB hd running FreeBSD 4.8 as the only operating system. Goal: Non graphical work stattion - possible Samba server. After an minimal installation the system "freezes" shortly after passing the boot manager and the monitor shows several long, white vertical stripes that resemble bar codes. The system is unresponsive and has to be forced to cold boot. I was trying to install 4.8 or 4.9 but multiple reloads all produce the same result. Before it was a Win2000 box I had FreeBSD 4.4 on it briefly but I don't have those disks anymore. It's as if BSD has some major problem with the hardware, but everything 'installs' without complaint. SuSe Linux was just loaded and it seems to be happy. I do have output from its dmesg in hopes that there is some detailed info about the hardware there. Any ideas about where to start? Thanks.
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