From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 10:38:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07106 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07091 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA26880 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:36:30 -0700 Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-1.ime.net [206.231.148.130]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA02008; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 12:41:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3229BCAB.2B89@ime.net> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 12:41:15 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.1.5 floppy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nick Johnson wrote: > > Hi there... > > I have just upgraded my hardware extensively and decided to install a > fresh copy of FreeBSD rather than try to move the OS from one drive to > the other. The problem that I am having is that the floppy boot locks up > at the very beginning; that is, the little rotating thing only turns > about halfway, and then everything stops. I've tried including the -c > option, but it never gets the kernel loaded to do anything with it. > > I have tried this from several floppies, and I'm certain I downloaded > the image with binary mode. I also used RAWRITE from DOS, not Windows, > so there was no multitasking of any kind going on. > > Pertinant hardware information: I have a Pentium 100 system with 32 > megs of RAM and 1.6 gig hard drive, which the BIOS is using in LBA mode. > (I don't think LBS mode is the problem, because the floppy boot never > really even gets started). The video is a Diamond Stealth 64 (S3 > chip) with 2 megs of DRAM. The only other hardware onboard is a sound > card and my Mitsumi IDE controller. > > Any idea what is going wrong? > > Nick Don't know if this it it, But I belive I have read several times on this list that having more then 16 megs RAM during install can cause it to fail.. Try knocking it down to 16megs for the install, Then compile a kernel with >16M support, then stick it all back in. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848