Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:16:45 -0800 (PST) From: Luke Bakken <luke_bakken@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation spontaneous reboot Message-ID: <19991113001645.29862.rocketmail@web505.yahoomail.com>
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Hi all, While trying to install FreeBSD 3.3 on my machine here at work from a CD, it spontaneously reboots during the phase when packages are being copied to the hard drive. After several tries, I've had little success. It always reboots during this phase, sometimes right at the beginning of the file copying, sometimes a little ways into it. Machine setup: ASUS P3B-F, 400MHz PII, 96MB RAM, NE2000 PCI Ethernet, SoundBlaster PCI128, Fujitsu HD, CDROM (not sure of kind, but is ATAPI), ATI Rage Pro video card. I have no IRQ or memory conflicts, my machine is not overclocked, and every other OS on it works fine (DOS and WinNT). On another identical machine as this I have installed DOS, NT, Linux and BeOS with success. After reading newsgroup and mailing-list archives, I suspect it has something to do with the CD, but I'm not sure. Also, during the kernel boot, it detects the hard drive with the wrong geometry: 19857/16/63, when in the BIOS it is 1245/255/63. I don't know how to get the kernel to correctly detect the drive. I installed FBSD on my machine at home from the CD, which worked fine. Any idea? Thanks, Luke Bakken ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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