From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 16:11:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from schooner.routergeeks.net (schooner.routergeeks.net [204.75.228.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855D037B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:11:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kozowski@routergeeks.net) Received: (from kozowski@localhost) by schooner.routergeeks.net (8.9.1a/routergeeks.net) id QAA07515; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:11:14 -0700 From: Eric Kozowski To: User & Ian Patrick Thomas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install problem Message-ID: <20010712161114.I6122@schooner.routergeeks.net> References: <20010711125918.A26313@schooner.routergeeks.net> <20010711225958.C29759@schooner.routergeeks.net> <20010712104639.D3846@schooner.routergeeks.net> <20010712172529.E39967@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i In-Reply-To: <20010712172529.E39967@localhost>; from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, User & Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > Was your 3.x install dangerously dedicated? This is the last recourse sometimes. that did the trick! thanks! > > Ian > > As it was put forth by Eric Kozowski on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:46:39AM -0700... > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:21:33PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: > > > Eric Kozowski wrote: > > > > > > >On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:59:19PM -0700, Eric Kozowski wrote: > > > >> > > > >> i'm having problems doing my second freebsd install of the week. > > > >> > > > >> i got 4.3 installed without any problems (i just did a minimal > > > >> install, set the root password, etc.) > > > >> > > > >> now, when i rebooted after the install, the system gets to the > > > >> boot manager (F1 for FreeBSD) and locks up there. any key > > > >> pressed generates a beep. > > > >> > > > >> this system had freebsd 3 on it and worked just fine. i stripped > > > >> the system down to just a video card, pci fast ether and pci scsi > > > >> card. i've disable most onboard stuff in the bios, except the > > > >> floppy and one serial port. > > > >> > > > >> i don't appear to have an irq conflict (though i could be wrong). > > > >> > > > >> anyone have any ideas? > > > > > > > >anyone? > > > > > > > >i tried reloading again with no luck. tried all kinds of different > > > >bios settings, too. > > > > > > > >it still hangs at the boot manager. > > > > > > Did you remember to set the slice with the boot partition bootable? > > > > yep, did that. still no go. > > > > as soon as the bootloader comes up the system beeps once and pretty > > much locks up. any key press generates a beep. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message