Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:22:27 -0800 From: John David Galt <jdg@tomatoweb.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: install hangs Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19980130052227.33170600@gate1.tomatoweb.com>
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I'm trying to set up a new standalone FreeBSD 2.2.5 system, from the November CD-ROMs, using a boot floppy as per the manual. The floppy boots up, I get through UserConfig, and all the devices are displayed correctly (except of course COM3 and COM4). Then the system displays the line /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 , clears the screen, and hangs! (I can then view the device output by hitting Scroll Lock and PageUp, but other than that, nothing happens even if I wait 10 minutes.) Hardware details: CPU is AMD 386DX / 33, 8 meg RAM, AMI BIOS dated 1990 Trident VGA card QuickPath Systems Portfolio XP controller for IDE/floppies/serial/parallel, settings: COM1 port=3F8 IRQ4 (Microsoft Mouse) COM2 port=2F8 IRQ3 COM3 port=3E8 IRQ3 COM4 port=2E8 IRQ3 LPT1 port=378 IRQ7 LPT2 port=278 (IRQ disabled) 2 floppies (1.44 and 1.2) 2 IDE hard drives (105 and 340 meg), mapped correctly Trantor SCSI controller, port=350h, IRQ5, addr=DA000 (which I set up in UserConfig as nca0, setting the above numbers manually) ShinaKen CD-ROM (SCSI address 1) No network card. The BIOS is set to boot from C:,A: (It can't boot from the SCSI controller because that was added after I had the system, and has its own BIOS.) UserConfig reports no hardware conflicts, and indeed there are none, since this was (until recently) a working DOS 5.0 / Windows 3.1 system. However, I wiped the hard drive for copyright reasons, when I moved DOS and Windows to a new machine. Any and all hints would be very much appreciated. Thanks! John David Galt
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