Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 14:00:57 -0300 From: Patrick Walker <pwalker@nb.sympatico.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: I'm having trouble. Message-ID: <359E5FC8.5ED117E6@nb.sympatico.ca>
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I hope this is the right address. I've gone through most of the FAQs and tried just about everything. Okay. First I have an Acer AP5t Motherboard. I set the BIOS PnP OS to No. I read somewhere on the site that this might prevent the blue-screen 'probing devices' screen from going into what seems to be an infinte loop reading/writing to either or both of my HDDs. First HDD: 3.2, 500 MB Primary (C:) is for Win95. The remaining is extended partition for Windows programs and stuff (E:). Second HDD: 6.4. 500 MB Primaruy (D:) is set aside for FreeBSD. The remaining is an extended dos partition. They're both Fujitsu. When building kernel, it keeps detecting SCSI cards and every network card. I have neither. I disabled my IOMega Ditto drive. If Jaz and Zips make FreeBSD difficult the odds are pretty good the Ditto will do the same. And if that isn't enough, I have an ATI All-in-Wonder. I disabled all the serial ports (mach 64 interferes with 2e8). When I run the full screen kernel setup, I removed all the conflicts, not only that the only things I leave are the FDC, HDD controllers and bus mouse. There are no conflicts anymore, but when I proceed to the next screen all I get is a block mouse cursor in the corner, the FD runs for 5 seconds, lights go off on my CD and my HDDs go for a bit. Then nothing. It's dead. When I pass over the kernel setup screen I get a screen full of vanilla text. They appear to find everything and I get to the blue probe devices screen and the HDDs just run and run and run in a circle. It's the 3.2 GB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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