From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 08:12:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26320 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from u3.farm.idt.net (u3.farm.idt.net [169.132.8.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA26315 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:12:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jzollo@idt.net) Received: from localhost (jzollo@localhost) by u3.farm.idt.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA04458; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:12:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:12:15 -0400 (EDT) From: John Zollo X-Sender: jzollo@u3.farm.idt.net To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting freeze while loading kernel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's an old Gateway 2000 486DX33 (they use microntics motherboards) that I upgraded to a Pentium overdrive 83 MHz. I don't mind wiping clean and re-installing, but I have a strange feeling it's not going to work. I've used the same drive for windows95, and I never had any bad sectors. I ran a surface test in windoze before I installed FreeBSD. If it's a disk problem then I can rename the current kernel to another name, and change the generic one as my kernel. If one of the kernels is corrupt, I doubt the other one will be as well. I'll try re-installing, but I'm doubtful... thanks for your help! john On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, John Zollo wrote: > > > > > I sucessfully installed FreeBSD 2.2.7 off a dos partition using a > > boot floppy -- so I know the kernel on the boot floppy works fine. After > > rebooting, the boot manager displays the "boot:" prompt, and I hit enter. > > The kernel starts to load, and the first slash starts to twirl. After > > twirling for a few seconds it freezes -- and that's it. It stops at the > > first spinning slash. I tried the debug and verbose options at the boot: > > prompt, but it never gets to the point where they would be useful. What > > should I do? > > What brand/model/proccessor do you have? > > Have you tried wiping clean and reinstalling? It could be a disk error. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message