From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 11:01:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA06360 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 11:01:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06355 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 11:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCALHOST (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA06259; Fri, 17 May 1996 11:03:14 -0700 Message-Id: <199605171803.LAA06259@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host LOCALHOST didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Mark Hudson cc: "questions@FREEBSD" In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 13:38:01 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:03:13 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello, > > I have a copy of Free BSD 2.1 which I am trying to install onto a 75Mhz > Pentium. I made the boot disk but the machine halts before the > installation menu is reached - a few lines from the boot sequence > appear on the screen before it goes blank. Ive tried the boot disk on > various machines in the office and found that the machines with the > Microid Research BIOS fail to boot; those with American Megetrends > BIOS go to the installation menu O.K. What kind of video card is in the machine? Try disabling all of the sio ports in -c. (Type -c at the Boot: prompt on startup.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major