From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 18:12:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CF237BB7F for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA89048; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:12:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200002210212.VAA89048@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:12:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: bmbr Subject: RE: FreeBSD won't install.. Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Feb-00 bmbr wrote: > I'm trying an installation of freebsd on a machine of mine, and everytime > I try (off of either the bootdisks, or the cd-rom), it locks at the same > part.. > > -------- > Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: > 1. FD 2.88MB System Type-(00) > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: no > - > BTX Loader 1.00 BTX Version is 1.01 > -------- > > it just freezes there and wont go any farther.. here's a quick rundown of > my machine.. also, i've tried swapping the cards with ones that are in my > working freebsd box, and i get the same problem.. > > ------ > pII 350 intel > 128mb ram > western digital IDE hdd (also tried with maxtor and fujitsu) > AMD PCNet NIC (also tried 3com nic) > Diamond Fire GL100 Pro AGP (also tried Matrox Mystique from working fbsd, > pci card) > Award 4.51PG BIOS > SOYO SY-6BE Motherboard (nothing integrated) > Toshiba 24x internal IDE CDROM XM 600-2B > ------ > > I'm doing the FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE install.. do you have any insights as to > what the problem/solution might be? > > Thanks, > Nick Stephens Please download http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/boot_test.flp, and use dd(1) to put it onto a disk. Then boot off of this floppy and tell me where it dies, please. Also, do you have a serial console hooked up to this box by any chance? If I need more info, I acn add in more debugging messages, but they result in a *lot* of debugging messages, and having a serial console to log all of them would probably help a lot. Thanks. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message