Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:11:56 -0500 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: Daniel Herring <dherring@uiuc.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies Message-ID: <200302232211.56493.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.53.0302231904200.-464223@nuntius.insightbb.com> References: <Pine.WNT.4.53.0302231904200.-464223@nuntius.insightbb.com>
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On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:07 pm, Daniel Herring wrote: > Here's the situation: > Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD Well that's not much memory. 5.0 needs much more minimum memory than 4.x Your best bet is to put more memory in and see how that goes first. next, try to get -current boot floppies and see if the same error is there. 5.0 is stil not production material, so re-read the early adopters guide and be prepared to go to work if you really want 5.0 on this machine. You may be better off upgrading to 4.7rel or 4.8 when it comes out. > Current OS: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE what does a dmesg from 4.3 look like? > Desired OS: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE > > I downloaded and copied "kern.flp" and "mfsroot.flp" onto two > freshly-formatted floppies (no errors). > Boot the machine. It loads both floppies, starts the kernel, prepares for > sysinstall, and freezes. > After this, the machine doesn't respond to any keyboard events (Excape, > Num-lock, 3-fingered-salute, ...). > > Here's the last screen before it dies: > | sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > | sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > | sio0: type 16550A > | sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > | sio1: port may not be enabled > | vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x2f8-0x307 irq 3 on isa 0 > | sio4: <RC144AxF> at port 0x2f8-0x307 irq 3 in isa0 > | sio4: type 16550A > | unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port) Are you sure you disabled pnp? > | unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq) > | unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port) > | unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port) > | unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (irq) > | unknown: <PNP0680> can't assign resources (port) > | unknown: <PNP0680> can't assign resources (port) > | unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (port) > | Time counters tick every 10.000 msec > | ata1_slave: timeout waiting for interrupt > | ata1_slave: ATAPI identify failed > | ad0: 1549MB <WDC AC21600H> [3148/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO > | acd0: CDROM <FX600S> at ata1-master BIOSPIO > | Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0 > | /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 > > Does anyone have any idea what is wrong or how I can avoid this? > I successfully installed version 4-3 from boot floppies a couple years > ago... > Version 4.3 still boots fine... > This happens even if I disconnect the HD... > I've enabled and disabled most of the BIOS settings (ports, PNP OS, ...) > > Also, these boot floppies successfully load on my other computer. well what hardware differences are there? I don't know what's wrong, but some more info may be helpful to others. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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