Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:41:12 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Vinny <vinny-mail-01+f.questions20081120@palaceofretention.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure Message-ID: <20081121094043.D19920@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4926015A.3010803@palaceofretention.ca> References: <4926015A.3010803@palaceofretention.ca>
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> I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that > I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I figured would be respectable. a lot of. > > Downloaded the ISO files, burned CDs of them and when I try to run them it > starts to boot and then freezes tighter than a muskrat's arse. > > Three lines coming on the screen and it ends with "Starting the_" and just > hangs. > I've got a PIII 1000 here that I use as a file server and the boot disks run > fine on that. Just won't boot off the PII 400. are you sure machine is OK. tried memtest?
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