Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 16:26:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: steveg@wavefront.wti.com (Steve Galle) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Latest snap won't boot! Message-ID: <199504262326.QAA13734@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9504261028.ZM5522@walrus.wti.com> from "Steve Galle" at Apr 26, 95 10:28:51 am
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folks: This is a good case for having a seperate kernel floppy that can hold a GENERIC kernel WITH DDB... that way we could get a stack-trace..... should such a kernel floppy be part of the distribution as well? julian > > Hello all. Sorry to post a question with almost no information, but the machine > is crashing before it produces any helpful output. Here's what happens: I boot > off of the boot floppy, (It crashes whether or not I disable probing of devices > which are not installed...) and make it to the menu. If I choose to procede > with the installation, the hard drive light comes on, and never goes back out. > At this point, the machine will let me switch screens with alt-F1/2, but there > is no information to be found on the F2 screen. > The machine succesfully ran 2.0R, and ann SNAPs until the beginning of the > year, when I stopped keeping it current. > > The machine: > 486DX4/100 > Adaptec SCSI chip on a SIDE (?) vesa local bus i/o card <=(this beastie must > Genoa Phantom64 local bus video card go one of > these ProAudioStudio/Spectrum16 audio card > days.) > 2 quantum 540lps drives > 1 seagate 20mb drive > 1 Toshiba CDROM > 1 Archive Viper150 (ick!) tape drive. > > > Any info you can spare including maybe how I can provide you with more info if > it would help would be fantastic. Thanks! > > -Steve >
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