Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:13:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Julian C. Dunn" <jdunn@aquezada.com> To: tshansen@sdcc10.ucsd.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: problem installing on 486 slc Message-ID: <XFMail.990220171315.jdunn@aquezada.com>
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>I have made a number of boot disk for the system using different floppies >and different install images (2.2.8, 3.0). Anyway, for some reason when I >boot the freebsd install floppies it hangs right after a couple of >iterations of the inital / - \ - cycle, before any words get printed to >the screen. It is a complete hardware freeze in that the capslock light >doesn't work. Has anyone else experienced this or does anyone have any >suggestions? I have done many freebsd installs on many systems (all native >intel processors though) and I have not had any problems. Thanks. Each time that I've had a machine go down or act strangely before it gets to the bootloader screen, it's always been a memory problem. It's a 486, right? So it probably has 30 pin SIMMs. Make sure each bank of four SIMMs is made by the same manufacturer and is the same speed. - Julian [ Julian C. Dunn - jdunn@aquezada.com WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/ ] [ programmer, web designer, unix user, fumbler, writer, and future engineer] [ FuE exfe94 a+++ Ifte/slc lonca r- ps++ bs+ t++/*t C+++$/C! w+++ p7 LF+++ ] [N++/N! cd260 pr++ g+++ S-/S *x++ Fa+++/Fa$/Fa! m1 b+ fc+++/ E>+ rl-- *d s!] [ "... for one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most ] [ difficult of all our tasks" - rainer maria rilke ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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