From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 14:50:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.pinboard.com (mail.pinboard.com [194.209.195.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B17B37B401 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:50:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kurt@pinboard.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.pinboard.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/20000102-00-KK) with UUCP id XAA64862 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:50:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kurt@pinboard.com (kurt@pinboard.com)) (client-IP ) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by squirrel.pbdhome.pinboard.com (8.9.1/8.9.1-19980817-01/KK) with UUCP id XAA25583 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:45:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from: kurt@pinboard.com) Received: (from kurt@localhost) by badger.pbdhome.pinboard.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/20000829-01-KK) id XAA36638 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:42:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kurt (kurt)) (client-IP ) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:42:38 +0100 From: pbdlists@pinboard.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot of 4.2R hangs Message-ID: <20010225234238.A36602@pinboard.com> Mail-Followup-To: pbdlists@pinboard.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anybody got an idea what the heck I have to do to get the 4.2R installaiton media to load properly? I've tried on different machines, I've tried on SCSI CD-ROM's and IDE CD-ROM's, I've tried to boot from the CD and from the floppies, I've also tried the floppies of the latest -STABLE, but all with the same result: when the devices are being scanned it gets as far as the parallel port and then it sits there and does nothing. The last line on the screen says plip0: on ppbus0 and there it stays. I've also tried disabling any and all devices which are not absolutely required for the install, but it still stops. I've been using FreeBSD since v2.0.5 on lots of machines, but I've never had a problem like this before. Also all the previous releases boot, install and run just fine on the same machines, so it should not be anything with the hardware. Any hints eagerly accepted. Kurt -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The box said: "Requires Windows 95 or better", so I installed FreeBSD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message