From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 17:30:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA11983 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 17:30:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sbmp64.ess.sunysb.edu (yegor@sbmp64.ess.sunysb.edu [129.49.29.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA11971 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 17:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (yegor@localhost) by sbmp64.ess.sunysb.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA00243 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:30:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:30:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Yegor Sinelnikov To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Computer hangs after freebsd reboot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear list members, We have just installed FreeBSD version 2.2.2 on a 486DX Cyrix machine with 2.5 Gb disk. FreeBSD became a third OS in addition to previously installed Windows NT 4.0 and DOS 6.0. The instalation of FreeBSD was successfull. It works fine. But when we reboot the computer from FreeBSD it hangs. It does not even go to the CMOS hardware test and no single message is visible on the screen. To make it work after FreeBSD we have to unplag the hard drive each time, which makes the reboot process rather complicated operation. With unplaged hard drive computer starts to boot, and by shutting it down again after the memory test and pluging hard disk we return to the noraml operational state. However, once booted to FreeBSD, starts all troubles again. What could be the suggestions? We did: compiled customized cernel with no extra drivers set disk geometry in CMOS to user defined disabled all cashing in CMOS Is it critical that FreeBSD is installed in the last partition, below 1Gb? What alse can be done? Please, share your expirience. Yegor D. Sinelnikov yegor@sbmp64.ess.sunysb.edu Department of Geosciences tel: +1-516-6329706 (office) SUNY at Stony Brook +1-516-6328238 (lab) New York 11794-2100 +1-516-6328241 (secretary) USA fax: +1-516-6328140