From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 9:22:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mpinet.net (pop.mpinet.net [216.53.130.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CCC837B722 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwoodson@wloq.com) Received: from mail.wloq.com (brintech-044.mpinet.net [216.53.154.108]) by mpinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06265 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:22:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Spooler by mail.wloq.com (Mercury/32 v3.21c) ID MO00010E; 4 Apr 01 12:21:44 -0400 Received: from spooler by wloq.com (Mercury/32 v3.21c); 4 Apr 01 12:18:09 -0400 Received: from ph0t3qn1qu3.wloq.com (192.168.100.3) by mail.wloq.com (Mercury/32 v3.21c) with ESMTP ID MG00010C; 4 Apr 01 12:18:04 -0400 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010404112306.021ef440@192.168.100.3> X-Sender: mwoodson@192.168.100.3 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:12:57 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Mark Woodson Subject: Vectra XU 6/xxx Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having a huge problem trying to get FreeBSD installed on this system. I've tried a number of different installs and they all fail with the same result (3.4R, 4.1R, 4.2R, from burned ISO, from Walnut Creek CD's, from FTP w/boot floppies). The system is an HP Vectra XU 6 with PPro 200 & 32M, doesn't have the original NIC (linksys, recognized as dc0) and a USR 33.6 (sio4). Thinking originally that it was a problem with the drive, I've tried 4 so far. The original Seagate 2.5G SCSI, an old Quantum 3G SCSI and a Maxtor 71670 IDE (with SCSI disabled though the chipset still gets recognized Adaptec 7880 chipset). After the install (which runs flawlessly) in will not boot. I just get a cursor, no messages are output on the screen. I've spent some time digging through the archives at geocrawler and haven't found anything to help me. While there isn't anything listed on the errata for 4.2, I did see the boot0 bug listed, and downloaded and applied the updated boot0 with boot0cfg from the fixit shell. Didn't seem to make any difference. I've tried creating a small DOS partition (thinking that maybe there was a drive geometry problem). In a fit of despair I tried installing RedHat, that installed fine (the second time) but panicked on boot because it thought that there was a second processor (which there isn't, it's a SMP board, but the second processor remains uninstalled). I'd love to be able to get this machine running, but I'm out of ideas. I know people have gotten FreeBSD running on these machines... I'm just totally clueless as to how they did it. -Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message